polyamy

Updated: June 20, 2025

And I believe, from his chivalrous faithfulness to his good wife Kadijah, as long as she lived, that Mohammed was a man who could have accepted that great truth in all its fulness, had he but been taught it. He certainly felt the evil of polyamy so strongly as to restrict it in every possible way, except the only right way namely, the proclamation of the true ideal of marriage.

Charles Kingsley - Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh