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The Sasanian society followed Zoroastrianism, which viewed women to be possessions in marriage, although consent was required in both marriage and divorce. In Mesopotamia, marriages were generally monogamous, except among royalty, who would have harems consisting of wives and concubines. The most common and recognized types of marriage at this time consisted of: marriage by agreement, marriage by capture, marriage by mahr, marriage by inheritance, and "Mot'a" or temporary marriage. In Arabia before the advent of Islam in the 7th century CE, a variety of different marriage practices existed. Main article: Marriage in pre-Islamic Arabia The marriage celebration may be called ʿurs / zawāj ( Arabic: زواج / عرس), ezdewaj/arusi (Persian), shaadi (Urdu), biye/biya (Bengali) or düğün (Turkish). The marriage contract is known by different names: Literary Arabic: عقد القران ʿaqd al-qirān, " matrimony contract" Urdu: نکاح نامہ / ALA-LC: Nikāḥ-nāmah Bengali: আকদ, romanized: akd Persian: ازدواج ezdevāj "marriage" and سند ازدواج or عقدنامه ( sǎnǎde ezdevāj, aqd nāmeh) for the certificate. In Arabic-speaking countries, marriage is commonly called zawāj ( Arabic: زواج, from the Quranic term zawj ( Arabic: زوج), referring to a member of a pair), and this term has recently gained currency among Muslim speakers of other languages as well. (At least in some marriages in some Muslim cultures such as Pakistan, there may be a delay between the nikkah and the rukhsati-when the husband, having obtained a good job and home, has the wife move in with him). In the Wehr-Cowan Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, nikah is defined as "marriage marriage contract matrimony, wedlock". In Islamic law, marriage – or more specifically, the marriage contract – is called nikah, which already in the Quran is used exclusively to refer to the contract of marriage. 7.1 Prohibitions based on consanguinity.5.1 International human rights responses.5 Marriage contracts and forced/un-consented marriages.