Authors: Yossef Rapoport
ISBN-13: 9780521045803, ISBN-10: 0521045800
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 2007
Edition: New Edition
Yossef Rapoport is an associate member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.
The author explores gender relations, marriage and divorce in medieval Islamic society.
Acknowledgements; Glossary; List of abbreviations; Introduction;
1. Marriage, divorce and the gender division of property;
2. Working women, single women and the rise of the female ribÄt;
3. The monetization of marriage;
4. Divorce, repudiation and settlement;
5. Repudiation as public power; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.