This special issue of the OJLR focuses on informal religious-only marriages occurring within Muslim communities in various jurisdictions with differing traditions of marriage and state regulation. It is widely accepted that religious marriages are entered by Muslims seeking to embark on a religiously lawful intimate relationship.1 In general, a religious-only marriage usually2 results in the parties not benefitting from state legal protections available to legally recognized spouses. This is an issue, to varying degrees, in all five of the jurisdictions considered in this issue, whether Muslim-minority (England and Wales, Italy, Malta, and Finland) or Muslim-majority (Tunisia).

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非正式的穆斯林婚姻：法规和争议

OJLR 的这一特刊重点关注在具有不同婚姻传统和国家监管的不同司法管辖区的穆斯林社区中发生的非正式纯宗教婚姻。人们普遍认为，宗教婚姻是由寻求建立宗教上合法的亲密关系的穆斯林缔结的。1 一般而言，纯宗教婚姻通常 2 导致双方无法从法律认可的配偶可获得的国家法律保护中受益。无论是穆斯林少数群体（英格兰和威尔士、意大利、马耳他和芬兰）还是穆斯林多数群体（突尼斯），在本问题中考虑的所有五个司法管辖区都存在不同程度的问题。