4. Insufficient dower. (If the stipulated dowry is not given when demanded.)

5. Refusal of Islam. If one of the parties embrace Islam, the judge must offer it to the other three distinct times, and if he or she refuse to embrace the faith, divorce follows.

6. Unjust accusation of adultery by a husband against his wife.

7. If a wife becomes the proprietor of her husband or the husband becomes the proprietor of his slave wife divorce takes place.

8. An invalid marriage of any kind, arising from consanguinity or affinity of parties, or other causes.

9. The executed vow of a husband not to have sexual intercourse with his wife for as long as four months.

10. Difference of country. As, for example, if a husband flee from a non-Moslem country to a country of Islam and his wife refuses to accompany him.

11. Apostasy from Islam.

The Greek Church holds that marriage is dissoluble in case of adultery, but not till a probationary period has elapsed during which a bishop or priest mediates with a view to reconciliation.

A fourth marriage is unlawful.