Marital Journey of Sett Juhar A Walk-through Marriages and Divorces' Contracts of Sett Juhar during the 4th AH/ 10th AD Century preserved in Egyptian National Library A Study of Form and Content

Abstract

A wide range of documents are preserved by the Egyptian National Library. One of the most significant legal papers is a marriage and divorce contract because it demonstrates how closely Egyptian marriage and divorce customs adhere to Islamic law. This study presents a document containing five marriage and divorce contracts dated to the 4th century AH / 10th century AD and preserved in the Egyptian National Library. It includes the marriage and divorce contracts of Sett Juhar, who was married three times and divorced twice during the period from 10th of Rabīʿ II 368 A.H./ 15th of November, 978 A.D., to 10th ḏu-l-Qiʿdah 393A.H./10th September 1002 A.D. It generally highlights marriage and divorce contracts during this historical period, reflecting social and economic manifestations during this period, and has been dealt with in accordance with the descriptive approach to the form of this document and the analytical approach to its content. This document also explains the method of drafting marriage and divorce contracts in the 4th century AH/10th century AD, and the extent to which these methods conform to jurisprudential sources. Marriage contracts also explain the phenomenon of dowry and the method of paying it to the wife or her parentage.