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أسرة

محرم

Maḥram

Definition

A person whom one may never marry — by blood, milk-kinship, or marriage — and may therefore travel with and be in private with.

Example

Maḥrams by blood: father, son, brother, uncle, nephew, grandfather. Not maḥram: cousin, brother-in-law's brother.

See also

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