Islamic Fiqh > Marriage and family > Iddah (waiting period) > Types of idda and their durations
Updated on 06 October 2026 at 10:50 PM
This page is a translation of eleven entries from the Encyclopaedia of Islamic Jurisprudence (al-Mawsua al-fiqhiyya) devoted to the iddah, the waiting period observed by a woman after the end of her marriage. It covers the pregnant woman whose husband dies, the pregnancy that ends the iddah, remarriage during postnatal bleeding, the debate over the quru' (menstruations or periods of purity), the woman whose menses stop or become spaced out, medicine taken to bring on menstruation, and the iddah of the widow who is not pregnant. The schools' positions are given with their evidence, their classical references and the hadiths that support them.