Alliances bénies en Algérie : nouveaux liens maritaux en Islam

The practice of a new kind of marriage called zawâdj-al-misyâr has spread in Muslim countries, among urban middle and upper classes. In Algeria, as in many Sunni countries, this form of marriage, which can be translated as “passerby’s marriage” is seen as a way to relax marital rules and adapt them...

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Main Author: Abderrahmane Moussaoui
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: CNRS Éditions 2010-12-01
Series:L’Année du Maghreb
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/816
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description The practice of a new kind of marriage called zawâdj-al-misyâr has spread in Muslim countries, among urban middle and upper classes. In Algeria, as in many Sunni countries, this form of marriage, which can be translated as “passerby’s marriage” is seen as a way to relax marital rules and adapt them to the reality of everyday life. Such a reinvention of tradition also appears as a concrete manifestation of the debates and struggles for leadership between Shi’ism and Sunnism. Indeed, like zawâdj al-mut`a (the famous Shiite « pleasure mariage »), the zawâdj-al-misyâr practice appears primarily as a way to live one’s sexuality in accordance with one’s (now obsessively) guilt-inducing beliefs and a thorny environment concerning the issue of lawful and unlawful.
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Alliances bénies en Algérie : nouveaux liens maritaux en Islam
L’Année du Maghreb
Islam
sexuality
Algérie
marriage
Shi’ism
title Alliances bénies en Algérie : nouveaux liens maritaux en Islam
title_full Alliances bénies en Algérie : nouveaux liens maritaux en Islam
title_fullStr Alliances bénies en Algérie : nouveaux liens maritaux en Islam
title_full_unstemmed Alliances bénies en Algérie : nouveaux liens maritaux en Islam
title_short Alliances bénies en Algérie : nouveaux liens maritaux en Islam
title_sort alliances benies en algerie nouveaux liens maritaux en islam
topic Islam
sexuality
Algérie
marriage
Shi’ism
url https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/816
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