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: Polygamy has always been argued since the beginning of mankind and marriages with multiple women have been applied on religious or culturel basis. During the modernisation period of Ottoman Empire many political, cultural and Social debates have been aroused on this issue as marriage and woman rights are very important social phonemenon. Polygamy has been the most important issue among these debates which started with the political reformsmade in the Ottoman State called Tanzimat performed by 1839. Different views of three prominent ideologies Islamists, turanids and westerns have been aroused especially after the constitutional monrarchy period and these views have been presented in this thesis in a comparative manner.

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