Jewish marriage law absorbed surrounding Christian and Muslim norms

Evidence

Even in a matter as intimate and personal as marriage, we see the Jews of the Islamic world adopting procedures regarding marriage roughly in accord with those of the Islamic world. There are differences, notably in the prohibition of concubinage, but the rule of polygamy was maintained. On the other hand, in the Christian world there was the famous takana outlawing polygamy and imposing the Christian-inspired rule of monogamy. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 327

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article about cross-cultural moral norms and dress/marriage norm diffusion. — connects to: Polemical categories like adultery fail when applied to another religion’s marriage law