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dc.contributor.authorMoosa, Najma
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-25T09:06:57Z
dc.date.available2013-06-25T09:06:57Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationMoosa, N. (2009). Polygynous Muslim marriages in South Africa: their potential impact on the incidence of HIV/AIDS. Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PER), 12(3): 65-96en_US
dc.identifier.issn1727-3781
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/650
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: Polygyny is generally deemed to be incompatible with Western norms of monogamy and equality, and, therefore, discriminatory to women. This article does not debate the merits and demerits of this view, but proceeds from the premise that polygyny as a religious and customary institution, although not commonly practised in South Africa, is recognised both in Islam as religion and in South Africa. Furthermore, given our historical, political and cultural context, it is not surprising that the State has, with a democratic dispensation in place, given full legislative recognition to polygynous African customary marriages and is in the process of doing so for Muslim religious marriages.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNorth-West Universityen_US
dc.rights© 2009 Moosa; licensee North-West University. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4314/pelj.v12i3.46271
dc.subjectMuslim marriagesen_US
dc.subjectPolygynyen_US
dc.subjectIslamen_US
dc.subjectAfrican customary marriagesen_US
dc.titlePolygynous Muslim marriages in South Africa: their potential impact on the incidence of HIV/AIDSen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved listen_US


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