Women's Rights in Islam: Sex with Infant Girls
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Minimum marriage age in various Islamic countries:
Brunei: no minimum marriage age specified
Kuwait: no substantive minimum marriage age identified
Iran: Civil Code provides that marriage contracted before puberty is invalid unless authorized by natural guardian with ward's best interests in mind. When authorized before puberty, minimum age is nine. Marriages between Muslim women and non-Muslim men are not recognized
Palestinian Territories of West Bank and Gaza Strip: Gaza Strip- LFR 1954 required puberty and made 9 (female) and 12 (male) minimum ages; Palestinian Qadi al-Quda issued administrative decision in 1995 raising these to 15 female and 16 male.
Sudan: Puberty, with requirement for willing consent of both parties.
Yemen: 9
All ages by lunar years
Source: http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/
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