... states where Islamic law is pertinent to at least the civil realm of life, as they fear that the practice itself has been taken out of its original intended context, which shall be discussed at length below. It shall serve firstly to state that the principal verse pertaining to polygamy, found at the beginning of the fourth chapter of the Quran, is placed within a wider context that addresses social components within a newly formed Islamic society described at the outset in chapter three ('Al Imran' or 'The Family of Imran') and extending into chapter 4 ('Al Nisa' or 'The Women'). The context of the verse has been placed within the narrative of a specific battle, namely that of Uhud, which took place in the third year after the Hijra, or migration, of the Prophet and his Companions from Makkah to Madina2. The verse begins in a conditional clause relating to ...

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