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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (863958)	6/9/2015 6:48:57 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579141

You do realize that was the practice in the region and other places? Want to look up ages of marriage in Israel before the Diaspora? If they weren't married by 12 or 13, they were spinsters. Or Medieval Europe? Pretty similar. Lots of royals got married off before age 10. To pretend that The Prophet was somehow different is disingenuous. The marriage to Aisha was for dynastic reasons. For those, age is never a factor in pretty much every culture. I say "pretty much" because I can't think of one, but they might have existed.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (863958)	6/9/2015 10:40:18 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579141

It's common in many cultures, not just Islam: en.wikipedia.org Historically, child marriage was common around the world. The practice began to be questioned in the 20th century, with the age of individuals' first marriage increasing in many countries and most countries increasing the minimum marriage age. In ancient and medieval societies, it was common for girls to be betrothed at or even before puberty. [21] [22] In Greece, early marriage and motherhood for girls was encouraged. [23] Even boys were expected to marry in their teens. With an average life expectancy between 40 to 45 years, early marriages and teenage motherhood was typical. In Ancient Rome, girls married above the age of 12 and boys above 14. [24] In the Middle Ages, under English civil laws that were derived from Roman laws, marriages before the age of 16 were common. In Imperial China, child marriage was the norm. [25] [26] Friedman claims, "arranging and contracting the marriage of a young girl were the undisputed prerogatives of her father in ancient Israel." Most girls were married before the age of 15, often at the start of their puberty. [27] Most religions, over history, influenced the marriageable age. For example, Christian ecclesiastical law forbade marriage of a girl before the age of puberty. [28] Hindu vedic scriptures mandated the age of a girl's marriage to be adulthood which they defined as three years after the onset of puberty. [29] Jewish scholars and rabbis strongly discouraged marriages before the onset of puberty. [27] In contrast, some Islamic marriage practices have permitted marriage of girls below the age of 10, because Shariat law is based in part on the life and practices of Muhammad, the Prophet, as described in part in Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. The Prophet married Aisha, his third wife, when she was about age six, [30] and consummated the marriage when she was about age nine. [31] [32] Narrated 'Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death). — Sahih al-Bukhari, 7:62:64 Some mainstream Islamic scholars have suggested that it is not the chronological age that matters; marriageable age under Muslim religious law is the age when the guardians of the girl feel she has reached sexual maturity. Such determination of sexual maturity is a matter of subjective judgment, and there is a strong belief among most Muslims and scholars, based on Sharia, that marrying a girl less than 13 years old is an acceptable practice for Muslims. [33] [34] [35]