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		<title>Shutdown of Moroccan Sheikh Sanctioning Marriage at Age Nine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Algeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana cofresi</dc:creator>
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CIA World Factbook 2006



Marriage Age:  21 for males and 18 for females; a "qadi" (judge of religious law) can waive the age requirement.

Polygamy: A man may take up to four wives.  A wife maintains the right to notification that her husband is taking another wife, and may sue for divorce if her consent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class of 2006: Map: Family Law in the Middle East and North Africa: Jordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Source: CIA World Factbook 2006 


Marriage Age: 16 for males and 15 for females.  Women under 18 must obtain court permission to marry men older by 20 years or more.  A royal decree in 2001 raised the minimum marriage age to 18 for both genders; however, the decree has not yet been formally [...]]]></description>
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