So you prefer poor skinnies paying 20k for mehr?![]()
Cambuulo is partially correct. Bride kidnaping was the result of putting a heavy burden of yarrad (the money given to the parents and not the meher) on the shoulders of the groom and his family. The asking price was as high as 100 camels which only few wealthy nomads could afford. It’s still practiced but sporadically. The qudbosiro (secret) marriages has made a huge comeback and has replaced it, it’s even practiced in the diaspora with the abundance of single mothers.