Day October 15, 2024

Who Practices Polygamy? (part 2 of 2)

By Mary Ali (edited by IslamReligion.com) Description: Polygamy in Islam in comparison with other religions and modern society.  Part 2: Polygamy in Islam. Among all the polygamous societies in history there were none that limited the number of wives.  All of the…

Who Practices Polygamy? (part 1 of 2)

By Mary Ali (edited by IslamReligion.com) Description: Polygamy in Islam in comparison with other religions and modern society.  Part 1: Polygamy in history and modern Western society. Polygamy has been practiced by mankind for thousands of years.  Many of the ancient Israelites…

Polygamy in Judaism and Christianity

By IslamReligion.com Description: The history of polygamy and its legal status in the religions of Judaism and Christianity. Polygamy is not a practice limited to the religion of Islam; rather, it is something well-known in the history of the People of the…

Polygamy in the World and the West

By IslamReligion.com Description: An exposition on the hypocritical and ethnocentric Western attitude on polygamy. Polygamy in the global community is common, normal and accepted.  According to the Ethnographic Atlas Codebook[1] derived from George P. Murdock’s Ethnographic Atlas recorded the marital composition of 1231 societies, from 1960-1980. …