{"id":12505,"date":"2009-07-30T19:19:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T19:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/30\/al-ghazzali-on-choosing-a-wife-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-30T19:19:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T19:19:43","slug":"al-ghazzali-on-choosing-a-wife-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/30\/al-ghazzali-on-choosing-a-wife-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Ghazzali on Choosing a Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Here are the attributes <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/al-ghazali\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">al-Ghazzali<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> recommends seeking in a prospective wife. (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alchemy-Happiness-Al-Ghazzali\/dp\/0935782281\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Alchemy of Happiness<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, p. 96 ff.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">1. Chastity<br \/>2. Good disposition<br \/>3. Beauty (&quot;See a woman before marrying her.&quot;)<br \/>4. The sum paid by the husband should be moderate<br \/>5. She should not be barren<br \/>6. Of good stock<br \/>7. Not previously married<br \/>8. Not too nearly related to her husband.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The importance of #3 is contested, however, by <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qh9ZZgDqzAg&amp;feature=related\"><font color=\"#810081\" face=\"Georgia\">Jimmy Soul<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> <em>inter alia<\/em>. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the attributes al-Ghazzali recommends seeking in a prospective wife. (Alchemy of Happiness, p. 96 ff.) 1. Chastity2. Good disposition3. Beauty (&quot;See a woman before marrying her.&quot;)4. The sum paid by the husband should be moderate5. She should not be barren6. Of good stock7. Not previously married8. Not too nearly related to her husband. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/30\/al-ghazzali-on-choosing-a-wife-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Al-Ghazzali on Choosing a Wife&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}