Syria's Law: Syrian law makes a distinction between males and females in regard to marriageable age. Article 16 of the Personal Status Act stipulates: "The age of eligibility for marriage is 18 years in the case of young men and 17 years in the case of young women". Below this age, marriage may be authorized subject to the conditions laid down in article 18 of the Personal Status Act.
Egypt's Law: The minimum age for marriage is set at 18 for males and 16 for females.
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Yemen: The Personal Status Act. Article 15 of this Act sets the minimum age for marriage at 15 years in the case of both males and females. [?]
Saudi Arabia: In the social sphere, the regulations do not define a specific age for marriage, as Islamic law regulates this matter in a manner that ensures happiness for both spouses and prevents the countless social dangers inherent in delaying the age of marriage. In this context, it stipulates that a person wishing to marry must have the capacity therefor. This flexibility in Islamic law helps to close loopholes and safeguard the interests of both parties
Indonesia (largest Muslim country and it is in asia) : Marriage: 16 years for women and 19 years for men, in both cases with the legal consent of the parents, up to the age of 21 (Marriage Act, 1974);
Libya: Article 6 of Act No. 10 of 1984 regulating marriage and divorce and their consequences specifies that a person becomes eligible for marriage on attaining 20 years of age and that the court may, with the consent of the guardian, authorize marriage before that age if it believes it to be advantageous or beneficial.
Turkey: The Civil Code lays down the minimum age for getting married as 18. However, with the consent of the parents, this limit can be 17 years of age for males and 15 years of age for females. Irrespective of these limits, the judge may permit the marriage of a 15-year-old male with a 14-year-old female for important reasons and under exceptional circumstances under article 88 of the Code.
Pakistan: The meaning of "child" for the purposes of marriage is governed by the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 (Annex 7, Appendix XVII). According to this act, a child is a person who, if a male, is under 18 years of age and, if a female is under 16 years of age (sect. 2 (a)). A "child marriage", under the Act, means a marriage any of the contracting parties to which is a child (sect. 2 (b)). The Act aims to ban child marriages. If such a marriage takes place, the parties are to be punished with imprisonment or with fine or with both. Persons performing the contract or directing it are to be punished in the same way.
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Where the marriage of a young girl is arranged by her guardian, she can repudiate the marriage on the attainment of puberty. This provision of Islamic law is called the option of puberty and is incorporated in the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 (Annex 19) as section 2 (vii) and provides an additional ground to a woman on the basis of which she can have her marriage dissolved
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