%0 Journal Article %T The Problem of Customary Marriage and the Solution of Temporary Marriage %J Religious Inquiries %I University of Religions and Denominations Press %Z 2322-4894 %A Navvab, Seyyed Abolhasan %D 2020 %\ 06/01/2020 %V 9 %N 17 %P 215-244 %! The Problem of Customary Marriage and the Solution of Temporary Marriage %K Marriage %K Temporary marriage %K customary marriage %K mutʿa %K Emergency %R 10.22034/ri.2020.244130.1429 %X Customary marriage (nikāḥ ‘urfī)—non-official married life of a couple—is a new phenomenon increasingly spreading throughout the Arab world. Legal and social consequences of customary marriage have led many socio-jurisprudential scholars to forbid all its varieties. The strategy has, nevertheless, failed to restrain the spread of this type of marriage. In this paper, I argue that one fundamental religiously acceptable solution is temporary marriage. Although Muslims have disagreed over the legitimacy of temporary marriage, I argue that they all agree over its original legitimacy according to the Quran and Hadith, and then I show that there is no decisive evidence for the subsequent abrogation of its legitimacy. Moreover, I argue that temporary marriage can serve the purposes of customary marriage. Thus, all Muslims can accept temporary marriage as a religious replacement for customary marriage. %U https://ri.urd.ac.ir/article_113827_f6c9a5cc9570b266f3b7c012b9e57f6e.pdf