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Women, the family, and divorce laws in Islamic history
Amira El Azhary Sonbol-
Frontmatter
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Foreword, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (page ix)
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Contributors (page xiii)
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Introduction (page 1)
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PART ONE Reevaluating Women's Studies
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1. Women and Citizenship in the Qur'an (Barbara Freyer Stowasser, page 23)
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2. Women and Modernization: A Reevaluation (Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, page 39)
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La Femme Arabe: Women and Sexuality in France's North African Empire (Julia Clancy-Smith, page 52)
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4. Organization of Culture and the Construction of the Family in the Modern Middle East (Peter Gran, page 64)
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PART TWO Muslim Women and the Shariʿa Courts
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5. Women, Law, and Imperial Justice in Ottoman Istanbul in the Late Seventeenth Century (Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr, page 81)
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6. The Family and Gender Laws in Egypt During the Ottoman Period (Abdal-Rehim Abdal-Rahman Abdal-Rehim, page 96)
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7. The Divorce Between Zubaida Hatun and Esseid Osman Ağa: Women in the Eighteenth-Century Shariʿa Court of Rumelia (Svetlana Ivanova, page 112)
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8. Muslim Women in Court According to the Sijill of Late Ottoman Jaffa and Haifa: Some Methodological Notes (Iris Agmon, page 126)
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PART THREE The Ottoman Household
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9. Marriage among Merchant Families in Seventeenth-Century Cairo (Nelly Hanna, page 143)
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10. The Ties That Bound: Women and Households in Eighteenth-Century Egypt (Mary Ann Fay, page 155)
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11. Drawing Boundaries and Defining Spaces: Women and Space in Ottoman Iraq (Dina Rizk Khouri, page 173)
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PART FOUR Dhimmi Communities and Family Law
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12. Textual Differentiation in the Damascus Sijill: Religious Discrimination or Politics of Gender? (Najwa al-Qattan, page 191)
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13. Reflections on the Personal Laws of Egyptian Copts (Mohamad Afifi, page 202)
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PART FIVE Children and Family Law
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14. The Rights of Children and the Responsibilities of Women: Women as Wasis in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840 (Margaret L. Meriwether, page 219)
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15. Adults and Minors in Ottoman Shariʿa Courts and Modern Law (Amira El Azhary Sonbol, page 236)
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PART SIX Women, Morality, and Violence
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16. Confined, Battered, and Repudiated Women in Tunis since the Eighteenth Century (Dalenda Largueche, page 259)
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17. Law and Gender Violence in Ottoman and Modern Egypt (Amira El Azhary Sonbol, page 277)
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18. Women and Society in the Tulip Era, 1718-1730 (Madeline C. Zilfi, page 290)
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Glossary of Arabic Terms (page 307)
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Glossary of Turkish Terms (page 313)
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Works Cited (page 315)
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Index (page 331)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 102.4 (Oct. 1997): 1196-1197 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2170730 |
SIG | 25.2 (Winter 2000): 614-617 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175585 |
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Published: 1996
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- 9780815603832 (paper)
- 9780815626886 (hardcover)