The Baha'i Studies Listserv > The article makes a number of points and I'd encourage you to read it. > The big point is that early marriages were normal for much of > pre-modern history and that even enemies and critics of Islam in the > past were unfazed by the marriage of Muhammad (saaws) and Aishah (ra).
Normally marriages were not consummated until after puberty and I've not heard anyone suggest this was not the case with Muhammad. Still, I don't think Aisha was as young as some hadiths suggest. As Stephen points out, the chronology doesn't match. I think a young age began to be ascribed to Aisha in order to make her better competition to Fatima as the Prophet's young darling. > The piece is mostly about a series of paintings but it points out that > according to some commentaries on the Jewish Torah, Isaac married > Rebecca when she was 3! Maimonides held that 3 was the permissible marriage age. > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-542643-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
