Woman in Islamic Shari‘ah
8. Polygamy and Islam
~ 185 ~
Country
Male
Female
Ausqia
47.7%
52.93%
Burma
48.81
51.19
Germany
48.02
51.89
France
48.99
51.01
Italy
48.89
51.01
Poland
48.61
51.30
Spain
48.94
51.06
Switzerland
48.67
51.33
Soviet Union
46.59
53.03
United States
48.58
51.42
153. Ibid, vol. 16, p. 137.
154.
Figures taken from
Encyclopaedia Britannica
(1984).
THE WILLINGNESS OF WOMEN
The presence of a greater number of women in a
society is not the only prerequisite for polygamy. It
is, in addition, compulsory that the woman who is
the object of the man’s choice should be willing to
