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Yousefi M, Shah Mansouri B, Hashemi S. Exploring Mobile Social Media Use and Deviance in Islamic Spousal Obligations among Married Women in Tehran and Istanbul. kurmanj 2022; 4 (2) :1-10
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Assistant Professor of Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch
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Employing a descriptive survey design, this study aimed to investigate the extent to which married women, with dominant Islamic backgrounds, frequented mobile social media, perceived reasons for it and in what ways their activities/relationships deviated from the established Islamic spousal obligations. To this effect, a sample size of 384 married women from Tehran and Istanbul, filled a researcher-made questionnaire distributed through various mobile social media networks. The questionnaire posed questions about the type of and the extent to which mobile social media was used, the personal and social activities/ relationships they engaged in and prevalent within the mobile social media frequented. The results revealed some similarities and differences between the two groups’ responses to the questionnaire. The percentage and the extent to which the respondents perceived mobile social media use promoted non-traditional friendships with the opposite sex, discussions on devaluing the importance of the ‘Hijab’, the imitation of diverse fashion, and opportunities to gain more attention from the opposite sex, were the highest and similar in both cities. Furthermore, a vast majority, in both groups, felt that the exchanges and posts in the media demonstrated a decline in both the observance of moral principles and limitations to relationships between men and women but an increase in unconventional (sexual) messages/ exchanges related to very private topics/experiences and diverse/adverse types of thoughts among users and the wide acceptance of infidelity as a common/acceptable behavior. However, married women in Tehran perceived that their activities and relationships online not only made their spouses seem less desirable but also more sensitive towards their behavior than their Istanbul counterparts. Thus, this study’s contribution to existing literature is that it identifies social relationship patterns and activities of married women in Tehran and Istanbul that violated Islamic spousal obligations enshrined in the Quran and described by the learned of Islam as ‘haram’ (prohibited).
Keywords: Mobile Social Media, Islamic Spousal Obligations
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Media Technology
Received: 2022/02/15 | Revised: 2022/03/16 | Accepted: 2022/03/30 | Published: 2022/04/10
Received: 2022/02/15 | Revised: 2022/03/16 | Accepted: 2022/03/30 | Published: 2022/04/10
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