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Temporary marriage is probably the way people in Qatar get around that. It's probably an alien concept for a lot of Westerners who wouldn't know or would balk at the idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikah_mut%27ah




Probably not, Qatar is mostly sunni islam.


http://nirmukta.com/2011/10/13/misyar-temporary-marriage-in-...

A quick Google tells me they probably practice temporary marriage as well but call it something else (and details differ).

Anyone actually knowledgeable, please chime in.


In rules of sunni islam, a woman can't get remarried after a divorce for at least 4 and a half months (to wait for unexpected pregnancies to show). Making the practice of "temporary marriage" very impractical.


Are you saying that waiting 5 months between sexual partners is very impractical?

It is quite common around the world, just as a matter of distribution of dating success events.

And of course law enforcement isn't 100% efficient.


The article you link pretty clearly identifies this form of "temporary marriage" as being the equivalent of a long-term mistress relationship rather than an encounter with a prostitute.


>> The article you link pretty clearly identifies this form of "temporary marriage" as being the equivalent of a long-term mistress relationship rather than an encounter with a prostitute.

No, because legally the spouse then has all the rights of a marriage (alimony, etc.) Prostitutes do not get alimony.


Mistresses do not have all the legal rights of a marriage.


And this is why you don't take "google searches" seriously. Anyone can write anything, let alone a clearly anti-Islamic website like the one you linked to. Many many scholars have spoken against the validity of such a marriage, and called it out as what it is.




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