2006-09-12 06:03:01 · 8 answers · asked by morgana_tyler 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The Sultan of Brunei has a harem and polygamy is still practiced, though illegal in the US. Warren Jeff's, the leader of a mormon polygamy cult was listed on the FBI's 10 most wanted and captured about a week ago. My husband worked briefly with a Kuwaiti man who said that polygamy is legal but regulated by law. He explained that few men do it because the law says that if you buy a home for one wife, the other wives get their own identical to the first. If you give one wife a diamond ring, the others get one too. Few men can afford more than one, he said.
2006-09-12 06:07:20 · answer #1 · answered by lizardmama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I understand, yes, in the Middle East, but there are some problems in practical maintenance because of expense and the need to treat all wives equally, per Koranic dictates. See Wikipedia article.
Harem: The World Behind the Veil by Alev Lytle Croutier is an excellent historical overview----see review at Amazon.
PS: From what I hear, it's NOT a matter of wild frantic orgies all night---that's a lot of Western sexual fantasy rearing its head. Think of it more as an extended family structure, with an intensely patriarchial structure, and you'd be closer to reality...
You may also get some limited information on harem living in the works of Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, who was living and studying in the Arabic countries for a number of years. Start with Guests of the Sheik, written before the Iraq changes.
2006-09-12 14:28:48 · answer #2 · answered by samiracat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes,harem still exist in middle-east country.and yes poligamy still exist too,mostly in moslem country.because moslem law allowed man to have 4 wives.but he must have confidentiality to give the wives and their children love,attention and money(lives).but some mis use it to married so many times and never care about it
2006-09-12 13:08:56 · answer #3 · answered by siany_lee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the US national newspapers. Polygamy with large harems is alive and well in Utah among Mormon splinter groups.
2006-09-12 13:05:27 · answer #4 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure!!!
the ideas of harem and poligamy r basic in the world of east..
2006-09-12 13:09:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes. Many of the Beduin tribes in Africa and the Mongols on the Asian steppes have harems.
2006-09-12 13:08:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yup -- poligamy is huge in colorado city utah -- harems -- im sure they do... just look it up on google..
2006-09-12 13:04:28 · answer #7 · answered by cyndiecyndie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, yes
2006-09-12 13:11:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋