Where Sunni Muslim personal law governs and no amount of dower was fixed, whose dower ordinarily…
Proper dower, or mahr al-mithl, may be assessed by reference to the dower of comparable women in the wife's paternal family. The comparison helps assess dower when the…
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Where Sunni Muslim personal law governs and no amount of dower was fixed, whose dower ordinarily supplies the family comparison when assessing proper dower?
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Correct answer A
Proper dower, or mahr al-mithl, may be assessed by reference to the dower of comparable women in the wife's paternal family. The comparison helps assess dower when the amount was not specified.
Option feedback
Option A
The ordinary family benchmark is the dower of comparable women in the wife's paternal family.
Option B
The husband's paternal family is not the ordinary family benchmark.
Option C
This is the wife's family, but it is the maternal rather than the customary paternal line.
Option D
This is the husband's family rather than the wife's paternal line.
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