Multiple Marriages On The Rise In U.K. Muslim Communities For Professionals Looking For 'Part-Time' Partners

Why Some British Muslim Professionals Are Choosing To Be Second Wives
Five female restroom sign figures in a row and one male restroom sign figure
Five female restroom sign figures in a row and one male restroom sign figure

Aisha laughs out loud at the thought of how her colleagues and clients would react if they knew she shares a husband. The laughter makes her loose hijab slip slightly, exposing a few strands of dark hair. “They would be dumbfounded and probably prurient,” she sniffs. As far as they are concerned, her 42-year-old factory-owning husband has only one wife—this thoughtful attorney sipping Earl Gray tea in the sitting room of a pleasant and very middle-class Edwardian house in a leafy residential road in northwest London.

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