text:  Mr Urquhart has correctly remarked that "the precept 'Thou shalt leave thy father and mother and cleave unto thy wife ' has not been transcribed from the Gospel to the Koran: the wife in the East is not the mistress of the household; she is the daughter of her husband's mother " to whom the appellation of _hanum_ or chief lady belongs of right to the end of her life: and even if the mother be not living the sisters of the husband take precedence of the wife who is regarded by them as a _younger_ sister