![]() | Law of desire: temporary marriage in Shi''i Iran Drawing on rich interviews that would have been denied a Western anthropoligist, the author describes the concept of a temporary-marriage contract, in which a man and an unmarried woman decide how long they want to stay married to each other (from one hour to ninety-nine years) and how much money is to be given to the temporary wife. |
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