Though a man was permitted to divorce, a wife without bringing the case before a judge, divorced couples sometimes appeared in court to make a formal declaration of the end of their marriage and the fulfillment of all related obligations. The following declaration was made in a Jerusalem court in 1304:

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. She acknowledged—Fatima daughter of 'Abd-Allah son of Muhammad, the Hebronite, who is present in Jerusalem—in conformity with the shari'a, while she was in a sound body and mind and legally capable of conducting her affairs, that she has no claim on her divorcer, the Shakyh, the Imam, the Unique and Perfect Scholar, Burhan al-Din Ibrahim son of the late Zayn al-Din Allah, al-Nasiri, one of the Sufis of the khanqah of al-Salahiyya in Jerusalem, may God the Most...