At a glance

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Women Family, marriage and kinship Tradition versus culture

Screening Room

Format: Film · Muslim history or life carries the story
Released: 1997 CE · 1418 AH†
Countries: IR
Languages: fa (original)
Approach: drama of Muslim life
Depiction of sacred figures: The Prophet: Not applicable · Companions: Not applicable · Imams: Not applicable

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Overview

A film by Dariush Mehrjui about a loving couple whose life is shaken when Layla is found to be unable to bear children, and her mother-in-law asks for a second marriage. ¹ ²

People and things also explored

Jāhilī Marriage Forms· Waʾd (Infant Burial)· Obstructing a marriage (adl): the guardian and the husband· Fleshy growth in the wife's womb and the right to annul (afal)· The woman left unmarried (anus) and the rules on her consent and maintenance· Maleness (dhukura) as a condition in the rulings· Sending infants to Bedouin wet-nurses· The social condition of the Arabs before Islam

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islam.museum contributors. “Leila”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/layla-1997/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Four pagan marriage forms — common, istibda‘ (lending a wife for a better lineage), communal paternity assignment, and wife-swapping (al-badal) — Islam abolished all but the first.