Document Type : Research

Authors

• Saleheh KHodadadi ¹
• Mohsen Badreh ²
• Roya Poortaghi ³

¹ PhD Candidate of Women Studies, Woman and Family Faculty, Religions and Denominations University, Qom, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, AlZahra University, Tehran, Iran,

³ PhD Candidate of Anthropology, Anthropology Faculty, Azad Tehran Center University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This article is an analytical critique of Kamail Ahmadi’s A House on Water; A Comprehensive Research on Engagement Intimacy Contract (Sighe Mahramiat) and Temporary Marriage (2019) from a -social science viewpoint with an emphasis on the methodology. Having organized this critique generally in two dimensions, including formal and content critiques, the authors criticize the content methodologically in two parts: 1) content review; 2) methodological. The first part counts the problem, which finds according to general method logics, and the other part concentrates on criticizing this research using respectively qualitative and quantitative methodological criteria. Form and content evaluation of the book reveals that despite enjoying positive and attention-worthy aspects such as studying a challenging and common subject and spreading the domain of the study to several important cities of the country,‌ the study lacks methodological and coherence of academic research in general and various methodological shortcomings especially in qualitative and quantitative aspects make its results be regarded as authentic and reliable. According to the results, the necessity of extensive studies with observing methodological principles towards temporary marriage issue has been felt.

Keywords

• Kamail Ahmadi
• Research on Engagement Intimacy Contract (Sighe Mahramiat)
• Temporary Marriage
• Marriage in Iran
• Kamail Ahmadi’s A House on Water

Main Subjects

• Sociology