Class Year
2017
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Publication Date
Spring 2016
Department 1
Anthropology
Abstract
This work focuses on a controversial topic within women studies of the Islamic world, the very young marriage of Mohammad's second wife Aisha. The work attempts to meet the issue on level ground and explain that while this may seem as a spark on conflict between non-Muslim cultures and the Islamic world this marriage was not altogether that uncommon for the time.
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Thompson, Samuel S., "The Pedophile Prophet? Breathing a Culturally Relative Point of View into a Controversial Cultural Debate" (2016). What All Americans Should Know About Women in the Muslim World. 11.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/islamandwomen/11
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Comments
This paper was written for Professor Amy Evrard's course, ANTH 218: Islam and Women, Spring 2015.