CULTURAL MODEL OF ISLAMIC MARRIAGE
Keywords:
Qur'an, Islam, marriage, man, womanAbstract
This paper will try to answer what are the basic characteristics of marriage recommended by Qur’an, and are their basis in Islam’s Holy Book which assume unequal position of spouses in monogamous family. Once we undertake detailed analysis of gender roles provisioned by Qur’an regarding marriage issues, we will extract basic characteristics of Islamic model of marriage and compare it with American cultural model as defined by Naomi Quinn. We will do this in order to extrapolate possible similarities and differences registered in cultural model of American marriage on one side, and ideal type of marital relationship advocated by supreme holy scripts of Muslim religion on the other. By this, we’ll try to establish and precisely define model of marriage of Muslim believers recommended by Qur’an, and based on that, to identify the thing that interests us, being anthropologists, the most: to what extent are followers of different civilizational and religious heritage (that is, the civilizational trend which is represented as a reference frame of high culture) different from heritage with which "we" identify with, and do those ("objective" or "subjective", "perceived" or "implied") "differences" tell more about "them" or "us".
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