Monogamous Marriage and Polygamous Marriage in Selangor Darul Ehsan (Case Study)

Abstract

This study is to identify the concept of monogamous marriage of non-Muslim and polygamous marriage under Islamic law in Selangor Darul Ehsan. The study is based on a survey which has been made in Shah Alam High Court and Selangor Syariah Court, Law Practice (Faculty Syariah and Law) Islamic University College of Malaysia (KUIM) session 2003\2004. In this study paper, the writer had used a few methods in order to gain all the needed information's and data's. The research was made throughout the sources from the library, besides the sources obtained from Shah Alam High Court, Shah Alam Syariah High Court, Shah Alam Subordinate Syariah Court, Hulu Langat Subordinate Syariah Court and Gombak Timur Subordinate Syariah Court. All of these courts are situated in Selangor, a state where my thesis is specialized to. In addition to that, the documentation of this topic needs many sources from the library. Among the sources are fiqh books, law books, magazines and brochures, local newspaper, thesis and so on. The writer also went through an interview session, research, survey and examining the documents to earn the correlated data. The objective of this study is to understand the meaning and claiming in monogamous and polygamous marriages under the allocation in Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 and Selangor Islamic Law Enactment 1984. Finally, the writer makes a conclusion from all the information that he got for this study.