Shutdown of Moroccan Sheikh Sanctioning Marriage at Age Nine
Last month a religious leader in Morocco, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman al-Maghraoui, received a question on his website about whether a woman can get married before reaching puberty. He responded by issuing a fatwa, or religious ruling, saying it was lawful for a Muslim man to marry girls as young as nine years old.
Oct 8th, 2008 |
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