Spotlight: What is Milk-Kinship and How Did It Evolve Across the Arab World?

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PRESENTER

Haneen Dajani

original city

Amman

original date

May 7, 2023

DESCRIPTION

Haneen Dajani takes a deep dive into milk-kinship; which is an Islamic belief that human milk creates a kinship between the breastfeeding woman and her nonbiological nursing infant (as well as the woman's biological nursing infants) prohibiting future marriages between "milk brothers and sisters".

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SOURCES & FUTURE REFERENCES

• Milk siblingship, religious and secular: History, applications, and implications for practice - PubMed

• Islamic Beliefs About Milk Kinship and Donor Human Milk in the United States | American Academy of Pediatrics

• Wet Nurse or Milk Bank? Evolution in the Model of Human Lactation: New Challenges for the Islamic Population - PubMed

• Milk kinship in Islam. Substance, structure, history | Wiley Online Library

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