Marriage in the Arab diaspora — faith, family, and finding your person

Amanina is a marriage-intentioned matchmaking app for people who marry this way — with intention, with faith honoured exactly as they hold it, and with family welcomed at their own pace. Arab, African and Central Asian families are all at home here, and the worlds woven among them: Amazigh, Assyrian, Kurdish, Armenian, Persian and Turkish; Somali, Ethiopian, Eritrean and West African; Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tajik and Turkmen. Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Druze and secular alike. Anyone serious about marriage is welcome, whatever their background. These guides explain how it honours faith and family across our communities, so you can see how it fits your own.

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• An Islamic path to marriage →How Amanina is built to align with a halal path — intention, the wali, modesty, and verified members.
• Christian matchmaking →Coptic, Ethiopian & Eritrean Tewahedo, Orthodox, Maronite, Melkite and more — a home for Christians of the Arab world and Africa.
• Family & the wali →How parents, trusted elders, and the wali take part — with your consent, at your pace.
• For parents →Open the door for your son or daughter, meet families first in the Majlis, and what you will and will never see.
• Druze marriage →Matchmaking that welcomes Druze members — introductions stay within your own faith unless both people have said they're open across faiths.
• Jewish marriage →Matchmaking in the shidduch spirit — welcoming Jewish members; introductions stay within the faith unless both people have said they're open across faiths.

Glossary of Arab marriage terms →

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