>> It’s a custom that stems from the middle east to retain the name of the father, no matter how many times a woman marries, even after a number of divorces, she returns to the name of her father, which I think is the result of TRIBALISM - the name of the father denotes their ORIGIN.
Last year I put this together regarding Arabic/Islamic names. It might be useful here as well.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3011825/posts?page=283#283
I would have posted it sooner but it took a while to find it again.
Thanks ray It does look useful. Why don’t you print it here along with the link we used to repeat works and this look like it took some time beside being useful