This research contains the definition of divorce from its linguistic and terminological aspects from the perspective of Islamic jurists from the four schools of thought, and its definition in the Iraqi Personal Status Law, as well as an explanation of its historical roots starting with the Babylonian and Sumerian civilization in ancient Iraq and Pharaonic Egypt and among the ancient Chinese, Greeks and Romans, as well as among Jews and Christianity. As well as how it was done before Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and after the dawn of Islam, and an explanation of its types of revocable and irrevocable divorce, with its major and minor parts, as well as Khula’ divorce, zihar, and i’la, and it shed light on the negative effects of divorce on spouses and children, and it examines the concern of Iraqi law for the continuation of the marital relationship and the maintenance of marital contracts on its lists.
Namiq Hassan (Sun,) studied this question.