Study of"nuptiality" in Islamic societies : A case study of French Mandatory Syria

本研究的目的是(1)收集大马士革/叙利亚城市在1921年至1933年间的“婚礼”趋势(平均结婚年龄、父母职业、出生和居住地、嫁妆等)的各种数据，(2)输入和(3)通过一些定量分析对其进行分析。结果表明：(1)女性平均结婚年龄在20世纪20年代中期呈暂时性增长，但到1934年下降到20世纪初的水平；(2)男性平均结婚年龄在20世纪20年代中期非自然增长，即比20世纪初高出3岁。总之，与大马士革妇女相比，大马士革男子在法国强制性时期前半部分的人口“危机”下遇到了更多的“困难”情况。

This research aimed to (1) collect various data of"nuptiality" trends (mean ages at marriage, parents' occupations, birth and residential places, dowry etc.)of the city of Damascus/Syria between 1921 and 1933,(2) input and (3) analyze them by some quantitative analysis. We have attained the results as followed :(1) women's mean age at marriage increased temporally in the middle of 1920s, but then subsided to the level of the beginning of the 20th century until 1934,(2) men's mean age at marriage increased unnaturally in the middle of 1920s, that is to say, three years higher than the level of the beginning of the 20th century. In conclusion, Damascene men encountered more"difficult" situations in comparison with Damascene women under the population"crisis" of the first half of French mandatory period.