Polygamy/Polygyny and Islam

Polygyny: Is It Fair? - Aishah Schwartz

Why is Polygamy allowed in Islam - Zakir Naik


FATWAS

Having a Second Wife in Western Countries

Polygamy and Polyandry

Polygamy between Islam and the West

Why Did the Prophet Have So Many Wives?

Questioning Polygamy

NEWS
20/03/2017 Over 8,000 polygamy applications given green light since 2010: Malaysia
13/03/2017 Female Iraqi MP proposes law that encourages men to marry multiple women for financial benefits
22/10/2014 In Indonesia: Pay to Get Second Wife
12/05/2014 'Why I chose to be a second wife'
21/03/2014 Kenya's parliament passes bill allowing polygamy
30/12/2013 Polygyny: What Was I Thinking?
08/12/2013 Polygamy offers young women of Kazakhstan a ticket out of poverty
10/07/2011 Jordanians divided over polygamy
11/11/2008 Polygamy Law Irks Iraq Kurds
28/08/2008 Kurdistan: Polygamy: a violation of women's rights
19/07/2008 Trapped in a polygamous household
16/03/2008 Malawians Defend Polygamy
07/12/2006 Indonesia head mulls polygamy ban
06/06/2006 Bangladeshis Pay Polygamy Tax
04/04/2006 The ideas interview: Phyllis Chesler
14/01/2006 Chechen leader backs polygamy - Guardian
30/08/2005 The hidden wives of Turkey
29/08/2005 Busy wife promotes polygamy in Egypt
12/08/2005 Private wives - Guardian
29/03/2005 Ugandan 'polygamy' bill protest
08/07/2004 Indonesia and the polygamy stir-fry: why men need more than one wife
22/06/2004 Irish ban on polygamy
22/07/2003 Gambian freeze on polygamy
14/01/2003 Malaysian polygamy law under review
04/10/2002 Tajik Women Want Polygamy Legalised
12/05/2001 Stop Polygamy in India
30/04/2001 Polygamy main cause of Divorce in Saudi
13/05/2000 Polygamy Common In Turkmenistan, But Still Illegal

POLYGAMY AMONG NON MUSLIMS

Polygamy in Chinese culture

The Canadian Home of Polygamy

Polygamy and Sikhism

Polygamy in Hinduism

POLYGAMY AMONG NON MUSLIMS NEWS
12/04/2017 Judge refuses to split trial of Canadian men accused of polygamy
23/03/2017 'My polygamous marriage has made me a better person'
23/03/2017 Monogamy Is No More Successful Than Polygamy, And Research That Shows Otherwise May Be Biased, Study Says
24/02/2016 Feds Find a Way to Crack Warren Jeffs’s Polygamous Sect: Food Stamp Fraud
08/07/2014 Muslim women and the surprising facts about polygamy in India
04/08/2010 Practice of bigamy is prevalent more among Hindus
13/09/2009 India: Bigamy: An issue of one too many
26/10/2008 One in five is against monogamy
19/08/2008 Study Suggests Polygamy May Lead To A Longer Life
15/04/2008 Polygamist mothers claim authorities forced separation from children
08/09/2007 Concubine culture brings trouble for China's bosses
23/11/2006 Leader of polygamist sect forced girl into marriage at 14, court hears
21/11/2006 Husband and wives
02/09/2006 She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar. Then she met Warren Buffet
30/08/2006 Fugitive sect leader's reign of fear ended by traffic violation
19/07/2006 America's most wanted: The man with eighty wives
11/06/2006 Open relationships: One lover is never enough
11/06/2006 Fears of new Waco as FBI hunt for Svengali leader of polygamy cult
10/05/2006 Organised-crime investigation into American polygamous sect
19/04/2006 Self-styled biblical king Philip Sharp wields a messianic power over seven 'wives' and five children at their home in Sussex
18/04/2006 Convert and remarry?
27/02/2006 The march of the Mormons
13/11/2005 Forget monogamy and swinging. We're seriously polyamorous - Observer
01/11/2005 1.5m Chinese 'descendants of one man'
30/06/2005 Hellfire and sexual coercion: the dark side of American polygamist sects
14/06/2005 The lost boys, thrown out of US sect so that older men can marry more wives
03/03/2005 Jathedar Iqbal Singh: Polygamy Acceptable
28/09/2004 Hong Kong: Tycoon, concubine engage in battle over her legal rights
31/10/2003 Two brides-in-one for Indian groom
02/04/2003 Indian state amends bigamy law
18/11/2002 Swazi polygamy under spotlight
12/06/2001 Bigamy row in Colombia
12/05/2001 Utah versus 1 man, 5 wives, 25 children - Guardian
06/05/2000 Hindu men can't hide behind Islam for bigamy: SC
07/01/1995 Hong Kong Targets Its Two-Family Men
19/06/1932 Hindu Polygamy Is Tolerated by Great Britain

SEE ALSO

The Rick A. Ross Institute archive on Polygamy in USA and Canada [Archive from Wayback Machine]


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Marriage in Islam

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Mutah/Mut'ah/Temporary Marriage in Islam

Mesyar/Misyar Marriage

Wife in Islam

Women in Islam

Matrimonial Services

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Ghusl (Bathing)