Family in The Ayntab of 17th Century

In city of Ayntab, family, as being the fundamental unit of society, has been established on Islamic laws and the common law of the city. Engagement is the period of knowing each other for partners. The disputes on engagement and the disagreements between the sides of an ended engagement are reflected to the courts as litigation. The partners to be married, forwards an official document to the imam of the parish which indicates that there is no inconvenience of the marriage of partners. The girls, who are not permitted to be married by their parents or who are young and have not custodian, have been married on the approval of courts. During the wedding ceremony, a certain amount of asset is declared to be given in case of divorcing (mihr) as two equal parts: cash in advance- mihr-i mu‘accel- and future payment-mihr-i mü’eccel. Despite it is possible to see the polygamous marriages, monogamous marriages are widely viewed. On the other side, Ayntab termination of the family i.e. divorce, is performed in three ways; with the will of the husband without asserting any reason or without getting consent of his wife (talak), mutual agreement to break up in which wife renounces some rights (hul’ or muhala’a), termination of marriage by the muslim judge (kad？) because of some specific reasons (tefrik). From these methods of divorce, talak comes true because of husband’s will while muhala’a and tefrik are the results of wife’s