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Authors: Amira El Sonbol, Amira El Azhary Sonbol
ISBN-13: 9780815603832, ISBN-10: 0815603835
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Date Published: May 1996
Edition: 1st ed
The eighteen essays in this volume cover a wide range of material and revaluate women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari's courts, the Ottoman household, Dhimmi communities, children and family law, morality, and violence.
Foreword | ||
Contributors | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Women and Citizenship in the Qur'an | 23 |
2 | Women and Modernization: A Reevaluation | 39 |
3 | La Femme Arabe: Women and Sexuality in France's North African Empire | 52 |
4 | Organization of Culture and the Construction of the Family in the Modern Middle East | 64 |
5 | Women, Law, and Imperial Justice in Ottoman Istanbul in the Late Seventeenth Century | 81 |
6 | The Family and Gender Laws in Egypt During the Ottoman Period | 96 |
7 | The Divorce Between Zubaida Hatun and Esseid Osman Aga: Women in the Eighteenth-Century: Sharia Court of Rumelia | 112 |
8 | Muslim Women in Court According to the Sijill of Late Ottoman Jaffa and Haifa: Some Methodological Notes | 126 |
9 | Marriage among Merchant Families in Seventeenth-Century Cairo | 143 |
10 | The Ties That Bound: Women and Households in Eighteenth-Century Egypt | 155 |
11 | Drawing Boundaries and Defining Spaces: Women and Space in Ottoman Iraq | 173 |
12 | Textual Differentiation in the Damascus Sijill: Religious Discrimination or Politics of Gender? | 191 |
13 | Reflections on the Personal Laws of Egyptian Copts | 202 |
14 | The Rights of Children and the Responsibilities of Women: Women as Wasis in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840 | 219 |
15 | Adults and Minors in Ottoman Sharia Courts and Modern Law | 236 |
16 | Confined, Battered, and Repudiated Women in Tunis since the Eighteenth Century | 259 |
17 | Law and Gender Violence in Ottoman and Modern Egypt | 277 |
18 | Women and Society in the Tulip Era, 1718-1730 | 290 |
Glossary of Arabic Terms | 307 | |
Glossary of Turkish Terms | 313 | |
Works Cited | 315 | |
Index | 331 |