Wedding Feasts: Customs and Religious Judgments, by Sheikh Mohamed Ali Ferkous (Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences University of Algiers (I)

Original title in Arabic: الأعراس عادات وأحكام

Here is the first series of questions relating to the judgments made on the customs and traditions ingrained in Algerian wedding parties. This series is originally a set of questions submitted by brothers from the commune of Douaouda ( Wilaya de Tipaza) , and to which we have added other questions (to finally constitute the said series) .

In view of the constantly increasing number of fatwas relating to marriage, its preliminaries and its customs, we have seen fit to add to this epistle a third series of questions which have a close relationship with this subject. .

This, in order to be at the service of knowledge, to spread good and to better watch over the fairer sex which, as a whole, has unfortunately arrived at a deplorable and saddening level, after women have neglected to learn the beneficent knowledge and has moved away from the acquisition and application of judgments relating to her religion, to take a meticulous interest in her beauty, adornment and toilet, and to conform, in her dress, to the Western model.