Cousin Marriage & Islam

Why is cousin marriage especially common in Muslim-majority countries?

Andrey Korotayev and Duman Bahrami-Rad hypothesise that Islamic inheritance rights for daughters motivated cousin marriage, to maintain family wealth.

This Substack considers several alternative explanations:

• Pre-Islamic bride price and property rights

• Quranic inheritance rights for daughters and widows

• Arabisation

• Clan pride

• Institutions

• Cultural assimilation (versus geographical isolation)

  

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