Polygyny is the basic rule; however, the ruling of polygyny differs according to the circumstances and conditions of every man. Restricting polygyny to cases where the first wife is sick or old is ...

What one thing could prevent depravity and fornication in Russia? Well according to one legal advisor in Islamic law - or mufti - in Moscow, Ildar Alyautdinov, the answer is polygyny (where the ...

Much of the public discourse about the recent revelation that Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with another woman while married to Maria Shriver and raising a family with her has centered on ...

Polygyny has been in the public eye and many Americans’ water-cooler conversations lately, from the success of the HBO series Big Love to the trial of the Mormon sect leader Warren Jeffs. Most ...

Polygyny is a practice where one husband has more wives than one. A new study has suggested that polygyny may not be as bad as it is often made out to be. Researchers found that the practice of ...

Much of the world frowns on the practice of polygamy. Most countries around the globe ban or restrict marriages to more than one spouse at a time. And polygyny--where one husband has more than one ...

The question remains why a male-dominated society should be so opposed to polygyny when such a large number of its married members practice a form of it by engaging in illicit or casual relationships ...

I HAVE read Nikhat Sattar’s article on ‘Multiple marriages’, published in this paper in September, in which she has kindly referred to me. My analysis of the Quranic texts relevant in the context of ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 27, No. 5 (1990), pp. 307-313 (7 pages) In species with male parental care, polygyny may reduce the parental effort provided by a male, and hence impose a ...