Abstract:
Widows encounter plenty of negative socio-economic consequences due to the increasing
divorce among Sri Lankan Muslims. Especially divorce is prevalent among Muslims in the study
area, and it is common for women to face various socio-economic and psychological challenges
after divorce. As an alternative to these issues encountered, Islam has introduced and encouraged
remarriage. In that respect, the study aims to assess the concept of remarriage of Muslim women
who have divorced and identify the factors that hinder remarriage. Primary and secondary data
collection methods were used in this study. In the first stage of data collection, the report of the
divisional Quazi Court was obtained and the details of the divorced women were obtained
through the documentary analysis. As the second step of data collection, a closed questionnaire
was distributed among the divorced women and an unstructured interview was conducted with
them. Interviews and telephone conversations were conducted with those 152 divorced women
who were selected on the basis of convenient sampling methods and as well as by newly elected
clergy, intellectuals, school administrators, and parents of divorced women. Moreover, other
publications such as research articles, texts, journals, and web articles were read. It appears that
there is a low number of remarriages in practice in the research area Beruwala and the women in
the study area are found to be uninvolved in remarriage. In this case, it was detected that, the
influence of the research sample's psychological, social and familial factors. In this regard,
awareness needs to be raised as remarriage is an excellent solution to the various economic and
social challenges faced by divorced women
