mutah

I knew that mutah sounded better on paper than it was in practice—that women who did mutah were stigmatized, while men were not, and that Iranian clerics popularized it after the Iran-Iraq War partly to get out of paying pensions to war widows.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

He expounded on how mutah is better for the woman, and better for the man, too; it can be renewed ad infinitum; you can convert it into the regular kind of marriage, if you like, but why would you want to?

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

I knew that mutah sounded better on paper than it was in practice—that women who did mutah were stigmatized, while men were not, and that Iranian clerics popularized it after the Iran-Iraq War partly to get out of paying pensions to war widows.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

He expounded on how mutah is better for the woman, and better for the man, too; it can be renewed ad infinitum; you can convert it into the regular kind of marriage, if you like, but why would you want to?

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

In my last encounter a young man of about 20 said ‘sharia’s better because of mutah, (?) the temporary marriage that can be arranged verbally for anything from a couple of hours to many years.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

All I can tell you is that it is from an article purportedly published in 1936 and republished, without proper attribution, at Antiques Digest (a/k/a oldandsold.com) It did, though, give me this term: ntut`ah (mu'tah, mutah, muta) - to do further research.

Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

mutah Literally, pleasure; shorthand for zawaj mutah, or “pleasure marriage,” a form of temporary marriage mainly practiced by Shiites.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

mutah Literally, pleasure; shorthand for zawaj mutah, or “pleasure marriage,” a form of temporary marriage mainly practiced by Shiites.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011