Kafa’ah Nasab: The Ethnographic Study of Marriage in the Alawiyyin Group

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10.2991/978-2-38476-236-1_88How to use a DOI?

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Kafa’ah; Sayyid; Sharifah

Abstract

Kafa’ah nasab, or equality of offspring in group marriage law, is a major problem for Sharifah (female title alawyyin), who wants and has married. This problem arose because Sharifah is required to enter into endogamous marriages or equal marriages within the group alawyyin. Sharifah is needed to marry someone sayyid because the kinship system adopted is patriarchal. In the group marriage system alawyyin, a person sayyid, in fact, can hold marriages outside the group alawyyin, thus creating problems in the marriage system within the group alawyyin. This research is an ethnographic work that presents data from an insider's perspective. Active participant observation was applied in this research because the researcher himself was a personal alawiyyin, which follows the stages in the pre-marriage process in the group alawyyin. The research data found in this study shows that a Sharifah complies with the system kafa’ah. This is due to the social and cultural scope of the group alawyyin implemented in its environment. On the other hand, some Sharifah who choose not to burden herself with this isogamy decides to marry the man of her choice, whether sayyid or ahwal, because they have a different social and cultural scope or those who choose to live in an environment without any demands kafa’ah. Kafa’ah nasab is a value that means to unite and maintain the genealogy of descendants in the group alawyyin, so it requires a deep understanding of sayyid and Sharifah in group marriages alawyyin.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sy Sultan Hamdi
AU  - Yahya Yahya
AU  - Mahmud Tang
AU  - Andi Muhammad Yusuf
AU  - Ahmad Ismail
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/04/29
TI  - Kafa’ah Nasab: The Ethnographic Study of Marriage in the Alawiyyin Group
BT  - Proceedings of the World Conference on Governance and Social Sciences (WCGSS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 817
EP  - 823
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-236-1_88
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-236-1_88
ID  - Hamdi2024
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