Half-widow

Half-widow is a term given to Muslim women whose husbands are currently missing who have likely been abducted or detained and have been missing in the ongoing conflict in the Kashmir Valley of Jammu and Kashmir, India.[1] These women are referred to as "half-widows" because they have no idea whether their husbands are alive or dead.[2][3]

Thousands of people in Kashmir have disappeared during the conflict.[4] Most of the half-widows have not remarried due to doubt about their husband's fate and a lack of consensus among Muslim scholars on the issue. In Kashmir, a group of religious scholars issued a fatwa on the 26 of December 2013 saying that half-widows are allowed to remarry after a waiting period of four years.[5]

References

  1. ^ "The other half: For many Kashmir 'half-widows', the remarriage ruling means little". The Indian Express. 2 March 2014.
  2. ^ "In pictures: Kashmir's 'half-widows'". BBC World News. 11 December 2013.
  3. ^ Beigh, Sumeera Nazir; Manzoor, Shazia (2018-07-07). "Half-Widows in Kashmir: A Psychosocial Study". Indian Journal of Psychiatric Social Work: 68–74. doi:10.29120/ijpsw.2018.v9.i2.90. ISSN 2582-4996.
  4. ^ "The dilemma of Kashmir's half-widows". Al Jazeera.
  5. ^ "Issue of remarrying of kashmari HALF-WIDOWS? -UmmahHelpline". ummahhelpline.com.


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