{"id":2830,"date":"2011-01-18T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T06:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2011-01-18T10:20:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T06:20:49","slug":"saudi-marriages-no-complication-too-bizarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/middle-east-life\/saudi-marriages-no-complication-too-bizarre\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Marriages: No Complication is too Bizarre&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2831\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Marriage.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2831\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2831\" title=\"Marriage\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Marriage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Amanda Niekamp, Flickr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When it comes to marriages in the KSA, it seems that there is no complication too bizarre. Here, as Saudi Gazette\/Okaz report, a cousin is able to convince a court to nullify a marriage contract on the basis of \u2018family origin\u2019. What business is it of a cousin to stop a marriage?<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2014a widow after 20 years of marriage\u2014is working through the National Society for Human Rights to get a judicial verdict overturned. She is claiming, correctly, that there is nothing in Shariah law that requires any sort of pedigree in marriages. She states that she has complied with her late father\u2019s wish that she marry a \u2018pious\u2019 man, but that her cousin (and a court) are interfering by imposing new and illegitimate conditions.<\/p>\n<p>It would be useful for senior clerics in Saudi Arabia to state, unambiguously, that \u2018family origin\u2019 or tribal identification are not proper conditions to be considered when assessing the acceptability of a marriage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Clash of origins ends marriage before it starts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>KHALED AL-JABRI<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MADINA: The National Society for Human Rights branch in Madina will submit a comprehensive report to its chairman after the Madina Court issued a verdict nullifying a proposed marriage because the man\u2019s family origin is incompatible with that of the woman he wished to marry.<\/p>\n<p>A judge revoked the marriage contract last year after the woman\u2019s cousin lodged a complaint with the court that contested the compatibility of her intended husband\u2019s family origin, said Sharf Al-Grafi, a Society member in Madina.<\/p>\n<p>The judge suggested to the man that he revoke the marriage contract on condition that the dowry he paid be refunded to him, but he rejected the suggestion and argued that the court verdict has no grounds in Shariah, Al-Grafi added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CROSSROADS ARABIA: When it comes to marriages in the KSA, no complication is too bizarre. Now a cousin is able to nullify marriage on the basis of family origin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[116,3881,18275,3882,2874],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}