Summary: Yoursquo;ve seen it in movies or read about it in books ndash; a caliph or prince surveying his harem full of beautiful wives and concubines. Or maybe yoursquo;ve read news reports about men in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia taking more than one wife. However yoursquo;ve come to it, you may have an idea that polygamy is considered okay in the Muslim world. But yoursquo;d only be partly right. The Koran does allow a man to have more than one wife, up to four, if he can support them. The Prophet Muhammad, himself, had multiple wives ndash; many of whom were widows of the conflicts between Mecca and Medina, or in some other way social outcasts. However, that doesnrsquo;t mean all modern Muslim nations treat polygamy the same way. Just as there is a diversity of individuals identifying as Muslim, so to is there a diversity of opinions on whether polygamy is really good Muslim practice. In more secular countries, like Tunisia and Turkey, polygamy is illegal. While in religious nations it is practiced more widely hellip; the President of Sudan actually encourages polygamy. In Malaysia, it is also allowed but very tightly regulated. The one constant in all of this, however, is that women are not allowed to marry more than one man.
