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Marriage in Islam

Islamic concept of marriage

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

In Islamic law, marriage centers around nikah, which is the marriage contract, or more specifically, the bride's acceptance (qubul) of the groom's dower (mahr); and the witnessing of her acceptance. In addition, there are several other traditional steps such as khitbah, walimah and zifaf/rukhsati.

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“Marriage in Islam” enters the record as islamic concept of marriage. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marriage, Islam and Islamic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 44-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Marriage, Islam and Islamic.
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This entry incorporates text from “Marriage in Islam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.