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This page references and quotes numerous scholarly and/or reliable sources that define or describe the [[Arabic]] term '''nikah''' (or the root n-k-h) as meaning "sexual intercourse", or the contract of ''sexual intercourse'', or [[marriage]] as a contract for ''sexual intercourse'' (for the payment received by the "bride" for nikah, see [[Purpose of the Mahr]]).
This page references and [[Quotations|quotes]] numerous scholarly and/or reliable sources that define or describe the [[Arabic]] term '''nikah''' (or the root n-k-h) as meaning "sexual intercourse", or the contract of ''sexual intercourse'', or [[marriage]] as a contract for ''sexual intercourse'' (for the payment received by the bride for nikah, see [[Purpose of the Mahr]]).
==Definitions==
==Definitions==


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===Women and international human rights law===
===Women and international human rights law===


{{Quote|Kelly Dawn Askin, Dorean M. Koenig, Women and international human rights law: vol.3, Transnational Pub, 2008|In the medieval treatises, marriage was known as nikah, referring to licit sexual intercourse, and the marriage contract was understood as an agreement permitting the husband sexual access to the wife in return for his commitment to pay ...}}
{{Quote|Kelly Dawn Askin, Dorean M. Koenig, Women and international human rights law: vol.3, Transnational Pub, 2008|In the medieval treatises, marriage was '''known as nikah, referring to licit sexual intercourse''', and the marriage contract was understood as an agreement permitting the husband sexual access to the wife in return for his commitment to pay ...}}


===Studies in Modern Islamic Law and Jurisprudence===
===Studies in Modern Islamic Law and Jurisprudence===
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===Sidi Khalil, the prominent fourteenth-century Sunni Maliki jurist===
===Sidi Khalil, the prominent fourteenth-century Sunni Maliki jurist===


{{Quote|Ruxton (1916: 106) quoted by Ziba Mir-Hosseini in volume five of Voices of Islam|When a woman marries, she sells a part of her person. In the market one buys merchandise, '''in marriage the husband buys the genital ''arvum mulieris'''''. As in any other bargain and sale, only useful and ritually clean objects may be given in dower}}
{{Quote|Ruxton (1916: 106). Quoted by Ziba Mir-Hosseini in volume five of Voices of Islam, pp. 85-113|When a woman marries, she sells a part of her person. In the market one buys merchandise, '''in marriage the husband buys the genital ''arvum mulieris'''''. As in any other bargain and sale, only useful and ritually clean objects may be given in dower.}}


==See Also==
==See Also==


*[[Lying]]'' - A hub page that leads to other articles related to lying''
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*[[Islamic Terms]] ''- A hub page that leads to other articles related to Islamic Terms''
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