The customs of the Muslims are diverse from all people … The men give marriage gifts to the women. From the day of marriage the man is only bound to give his wife food, but her clothes and all other things she requires she has to make herself … The wife is bound to pay for the food and clothes of all her sons and daughters. Therefore, the women are all harlots. When they do not wish to stay with their husbands they go to the Niepo [i.e., nā᾿ib or governor] of the city, and say that their husband does not give them food. They are believed, and the husband must divorce his wife. For the Muslims give divorce like the Jews. All men and women and children, Jews as well as Muslims, have these customs … And these customs are usual in the whole kingdom of the Sultan, and not in Jerusalem only … They are all alike.