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Cousin marriage in the Middle East
Cousin marriage is at least allowed throughout the Middle East.〔Holy〕 Anthropologists have debated the significance of the practice; some view it as the defining feature of the Middle Eastern kinship system while others note that overall rates of cousin marriage have varied sharply between different Middle Eastern communities. There is very little numerical evidence of rates of cousin marriage in the past.〔Holy, also Patai, p. 140〕 In many cases there is not only a preference but a right to marry the father's brother's daughter, wherein if the girl's family wishes to marry her to anyone else they must first get the permission of the father's brother's son. This custom may be upheld even despite a great age difference between cousins.
== Countries and ethnic groups ==
=== Arabia===
Raphael Patai reports that in central Arabia no relaxation of a man's right to the father's brother's daughter (FBD) seems to have taken place in the past hundred years before his 1962 work. Here the girl is not forced to marry her ''ibn 'amm'' but she cannot marry another unless he gives consent. Among the Jews of Yemen this rule is also followed albeit not as rigidly. In northern Arabia the custom is very strong and any outsider wishing to marry a girl must first come to the ''ibn 'amm'', ask his permission, and pay him what he wants, and a man who marries his daughter without the consent of the ''ibn 'amm'' risks his life. The right of the ''ibn 'amm'' is so strong that even a powerful shaykh may not be able to prevail against it. Among the Bedouin it can even happen that a ''ibn 'amm'' can lodge a complaint after the marriage has taken place, compelling the father to give up the bride price or have the marriage annulled. If he cannot marry the girl immediately due to financial or other considerations, the ''ibn 'amm'' can also "reserve" her by making a public and formal statement of his intentions to marry her at a future date. It can also happen that a more distant relative acquires priority to marry a girl over her ''ibn 'amm'' by reserving her soon after her birth. But if the girl is in love with another man and the cousin gives up his right to marry her, this is considered a noble deed and worthy of commemoration.〔Patai 145-153〕
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