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PIETY OF THE WOMAN PILGRIM OF PERSIA |
TRIO OF WEDDED WIVES OF A PERSIAN NOBLEMAN |
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| Strapped to her mule she is jolted hour after hour, day after day, closely veiled despite the hot weather. But all thoughts of hardship and fatigue disappear upon arrival at her goal — the shrine of Imam Reza at Meshed | The family tie can easily be destroyed in Persia, and a wife divorced at her husband's caprice. Although becoming rare, polygamy is still practised among those able to afford it. According to the Mahomedan law a man may have four permanent wives: no limit being placed on the number of divorces and re-marriages, provided he finds himself at no time with more than four |