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Egyptian woman turns table on male polygamy
Nisa
10/13/03 at 15:28:52
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SubhanAllah............... :o


CAIRO

An Egyptian woman has been arrested for polygamy after one of her husbands found she had been married to two other men, with whom she also had children, police said last Tuesday.

Under Egyptian and Islamic law, a man may marry up to four women, but a woman is permitted no more than one husband.

Suleiman Attiyeh, an expatriate worker living in a Gulf Arab country, learned recently that his wife of three years, Amal Mustafa Ali, 36, had married another man before him, with whom she had two children.

Police then found during interrogation that Amal, who had given Suleiman Attiyeh one son, had married another man in an Orfi (customary) marriage and given birth to a girl. Such marriages are conducted before two witnesses and are undocumented.

Amal, who was arrested last Sunday in the northern Cairo neighborhood of Ain Shams, will go on trial in a family court this week, police said.

They said Attiyeh caught his wife when he followed her to the home of her first husband, after she had raised suspicions by repeatedly asking to spend nights with her family despite Attiyeh's long absences in the Gulf.

It was not clear whether each man knew which children were his. Nor did the police say whether the other husbands had assumed all the children were their own, or whether they had failed to notice Amal's pregnancies for reasons not disclosed.

In another case of a woman accused of polygamy, a newspaper here reported last August that 32-year-old Sabah Abdel Kader had been arrested for being married to five men at the same time.

Re: Egyptian woman turns table on male polygamy
jannah
10/14/03 at 02:44:51
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[quote]Such marriages are conducted before two witnesses and are undocumented. [/quote]

Interesting... I remember hearing at an ISNA session about how people were trying to change Egyptian law so that "urfi" marriages ie "religious ceremonies" would count as a legal marriage because all these kids and ppl were doing these ceremonies to have secret marriages or have illicit relationships and then later have 'legitimate family approved marriages' -- which also ended up allowing the women to be literally dumped with no rights.

 


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