The road to understanding polygyny -- Agency and authority in polygyny -- Religious and experiential prescriptions -- Legalities and emotional well-being -- Imam Mohammed's commentary on polygyny -- Mental health and living polygyny -- Afterword: Muslim womanist praxis and polygyny
Summary
Debra Majeed's ethnography of contemporary African American Muslim polygyny illuminates the varieties of and struggles within a type of family whose form and function is contrary to U.S. civil law
