Monday, 5 December 2016

Lianhe Zaobao

This was an article contribution by Associate Professor Maznah Mohamad and Dr Suriana Suratnam from the Department of Malay Studies at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, in which they discussed the social and religious aspects of Malay marriages. The authors noted that for the Malay community, marriage to a large extent is a social contract as well as an obligation and duty to be fulfilled by the couple to their children and close relatives.