In 2005, religious authorities in Palestine warned publicly of a new phenomenon, one that was ‘foreign to Palestinian society’: ʿurfī marriages. They used this term to refer to ‘secret marriages,’ which they considered as linked to social breakdown, the result of the Israeli occupation. In the tales (similar to rumors) of young men and women throughout the West Bank and Gaza in the early 2010s, these marriages were often related to the colonial geographies of anxiety, of social and political fragmentation, and of the spatial segregation that Israel has imposed on Palestinians. Related concerns were expressed by the men of religion as they attempted to maintain their authority in highly uncertain times and in contested spaces. Still, in the very small number of concrete cases shariʿa judges continued to use the flexibility of Islamic jurisprudence to legally recognize ʿurfī marriages to work towards the most equitable solution in problematic situations.

2005 年，巴勒斯坦的宗教当局公开警告一种新现象，即“对巴勒斯坦社会来说是陌生的”：ʿurfī婚姻。他们用这个词来指代“秘密婚姻”，他们认为这与以色列占领导致的社会崩溃有关。在 2010 年代初期整个约旦河西岸和加沙的年轻男女的故事（类似于谣言）中，这些婚姻通常与焦虑的殖民地理、社会和政治分裂以及以色列的空间隔离有关。强加给巴勒斯坦人。宗教人士表达了相关的担忧，因为他们试图在高度不确定的时代和有争议的空间中保持自己的权威。尽管如此，在极少数具体案件中，伊斯兰教法法官继续利用伊斯兰法理学的灵活性在法律上承认ʿurfī在有问题的情况下努力寻求最公平的解决方案。