Is it permissible for me to marry the daughter of my mother’s paternal uncle?
Praise be to Allah.
A person’s paternal uncle is the
paternal uncle of all his offspring, because the paternal uncle is the brother
of the father or grandfather. So the mother’s paternal uncle is regarded as a
paternal uncle to her children, and his children are paternal cousins to the
children of that mother. Although in some cultures they call them maternal
uncles and aunts, this is just a custom that is followed among some people; it
does not carry any weight in terms of sharee‘ah or
linguistically.
Based on that, the daughter of the
mother’s paternal uncle is regarded as your paternal cousin, and the daughter
of a paternal uncle is not a mahram, so there is
nothing wrong with you marrying her.