Author and source
Subject
Date
Link or reference
Al-Mub'i ,
Dr. Ahmad
LBC TV
(Lebanon)
Saudi Marriage Officiant: It Is Allowed to
Marry a Girl at the Age of One, If Sex Is
Postponed. The Prophet Muhammad, Whose
Model We Follow, Married 'Aisha When She
Was Six and Had Sex with Her When She Was
Nine
Saudi judge upholds man's marriage to
8-year-old
19 June, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak0_UvzjgnU
17 Oct, 2010
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/04/12/7048
2.html
Al-Arabiya News
(Translated from
Arabic by Sonia
Farid)
Spellberg, D
Armstrong, Karen
Levy, Reuben
According to Sunni sources, Muhammad
consummated his marriage with Aisha, when
she was nine years old. Sahih al-Islamic
scholars state that no age limits have been fixed
by Islam for marriage. Children of the youngest
age may be married or promised for marriage,
"although a girl is not handed over to her
husband until she is fit for marital congress".
1994
D. A. Spellberg, (1994) “Politics, Gender, and the
Islamic Past: the Legacy of A'isha bint Abi Bakr“,
Columbia University Press, p. 40
1992
Karen Armstrong, (1992) “Muhammad: A
Biography of the Prophet“, Harper San Francisco,
p. 157.
2000/195
Levy, Reuben (2000. First published 1957), "The
Social Structure of Islam", Orientalism: Early
Sources, XII, London & New York: Routledge, p.
106, ISBN 9780415209106
(Qatim/hadith root: Bukhari, 7:62:64)
Various
Google images (linked back to source articles)
various
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Pakistan Defence
Islamic cleric among ten held in forced child
marriage case.
4 January 2010
http://www.defence.pk/forums/current-events-soci
al-issues/43259-girls-9-3-declared-vani.html
Faith Freedom
Child-Marriage and Pedophilia in Muslim
Societies: Will It Come To an End?
8 June 2010
http://www.faithfreedom.org/articles/women-in-isl
am/child-marriage-and-pedophilia-in-muslim-socie
ties-will-it-come-to-an-end/
Tom Godfrey
The Toronto Sun
Muslim child brides on rise
11 March 2010
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/20
10/03/11/13201531.html
Flying Fish
Production
Child Marriage in ISLAM
21 January
2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNouthf71f0
Shakir Lakhani
Child marriages in Pakistan
29 June 2009
http://www.chowrangi.com/child-marriages-in-pak
istan.html
Gulsher Panhwer
Child marriages: Keeping it all in the family
20 November
2010
http://tribune.com.pk/story/78896/child-marriageskeeping-it-all-in-the-family/
Asian Human
Rights
Commission
PAKISTAN: Child marriages on the rise across
rural Sindh
12 April 2006
http://acr.hrschool.org/mainfile.php/0278/674/
Meher
Child Marriages continue to plague Pakistan
3 December
2008
http://meher.tv/2008/12/03/266-early-marriage-chil
d-marriage-islam-law-pakistan-religion-social-eco
nomic-health-problems/
List of surats that tend to class women as inferior or lesser than men or give men jurisdiction over women
In Arabic
Translation:
http://www.muslimaccess.co
m/quraan/arabic/002.asp
Alternate translation and
translator
Your wives are as a tilth
unto you; so approach your
tilth when or how ye will;
but do some good act for
your souls beforehand; and
fear Allah.
Your women are your
fields, so go into your
fields whichever way
you like
Quran in Sura 2:223 (Al Baqarah / The Cow)
(MAS Abdel Haleem,
The Qur’an, Oxford UP,
2004)
Quran in Sura 2:228 (Al Baqarah / The Cow)
And women shall have
rights similar to the rights
against them, according to
what is equitable; but men
have a degree (of
advantage) over them.
Wives have the same
rights as the husbands
have on them in
accordance with the
generally known
principles. Of course,
men are a degree above
them in status
(Sayyid Abul A’La
Maududi, The Meaning
of the Qur’an, vol. 1, p.
165)
Quran in Sura 4:11: (An Nisâ' / The Women)
to the male, a portion equal
to that of two females
The share of the male
shall be twice that of a
female
(Maududi, vol. 1, p.
311)
Quran in Sura 2:282 says: (Al Baqarah / The Cow)
and get two witnesses, out of
your own men, and if there
are not two men, then a man
and two women, such as ye
choose, for witnesses, so that
if one of them errs, the other
can remind her
And let two men from
among you bear witness
to all such documents
[contracts of loans
without interest]. But if
two men be not
available, there should
be one man and two
women to bear witness
so that if one of the
women forgets
(anything), the other
may remind her.
(Maududi, vol. 1, p.
205).
Quran in Sura 4:24 says: (An Nisâ' / The Women)
Also (prohibited are) women
already married, except those
whom your right hands
possess:
And forbidden to you
are wedded wives of
other people except
those who have fallen in
your hands [as prisoners
of war]
(Maududi, vol. 1, p.
319).
Quran in Sura 4:3 says:
If ye fear that ye shall not be
able to deal justly with the
orphans, Marry women of
your choice, Two or three or
four; but if ye fear that ye
shall not be able to deal
justly (with them), then only
one, or (a captive) that your
right hands possess, that will
be more suitable, to prevent
you from doing injustice.
And if you be
apprehensive that you
will not be able to do
justice to the orphans,
you may marry two or
three or four women
whom you choose. But
if you apprehend that
you might not be able to
do justice to them, then
marry only one wife, or
marry those who have
fallen in your
possession.
(Maududi, vol. 1, p.
305)
Quran in Sura 4:34 says: (An Nisâ' / The Women)
Men are the protectors and
maintainers of women,
because Allah has given the
one more (strength) than the
other, and because they
support them from their
means. Therefore the
righteous women are
devoutly obedient, and guard
in (the husband's) absence
what Allah would have them
guard. As to those women on
whose part ye fear disloyalty
and ill-conduct, admonish
them (first), (Next), refuse to
share their beds, (And last)
beat them (lightly); but if
they return to obedience,
seek not against them Means
(of annoyance): For Allah is
Most High, great (above you
all).
If you fear
high-handedness from
your wives, remind
them [of the teaching of
God], then ignore them
when you go to bed,
then hit them. If they
obey you, you have no
right to act against
them. God is most high
and great.
(Haleem)
Quran in Sura 65:1, 4 says: (At Talâq / Divorce)
Such of your women as have
passed the age of monthly
courses, for them the
prescribed period, if ye have
any doubts, is three months,
and for those who have no
courses (it is the same): for
those who carry (life within
their wombs), their period is
until they deliver their
burdens: and for those who
fear Allah, He will make
their path easy
O Prophet, when you
[and the believers]
divorce women, divorce
them for their
prescribed
waiting—period and
count the
waiting—period
accurately . . . 4 And if
you are in doubt about
those of your women
who have despaired of
menstruation, (you
should know that) their
waiting period is three
months, and the same
applies to those who
have not menstruated as
yet. As for pregnant
women, their period
ends when they have
delivered their burden.
(Maududi, vol. 5, pp.
599 and 617)
Additional references:
From http://www.prb.org/Articles/2010/menachildmarriage.aspx
1.
UNICEF, Early Marriage: Child Spouses (Florence, Italy: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre: 2001).
2.
UNICEF, Progress for Children: A Report Card on Child Protection, Number 8, accessed at
www.childinfo.org/files/Progress_for_Children-No.8_EN.pdf, on Feb. 23, 2010.
3.
Heather Murdock, "Child Brides in Yemen Seek Legal Protection," Voice of America News, accessed at
www1.voanews.com/english/news/Child-Brides-in-Yemen-Seek-Legal-Protection-83233392.htmlon Feb. 1, 2010.
4.
Hugh Tomlinson, "12-Year-Old Saudi Girl in Divorce Battle With 80-Year-Old Husband,"Time Online, Feb. 9, 2010; and Asma Alsharif,
"Saudi Rights Commission Seeks Divorce for Child Bride," Reuters, Feb. 8, 2010.