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Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History » (1st ed)

Book cover image of Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History by Amira El Sonbol

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

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Author Biography: Amira El Sonbol

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Contributors
Introduction1
1Women and Citizenship in the Qur'an23
2Women and Modernization: A Reevaluation39
3La Femme Arabe: Women and Sexuality in France's North African Empire52
4Organization of Culture and the Construction of the Family in the Modern Middle East64
5Women, Law, and Imperial Justice in Ottoman Istanbul in the Late Seventeenth Century81
6The Family and Gender Laws in Egypt During the Ottoman Period96
7The Divorce Between Zubaida Hatun and Esseid Osman Aga: Women in the Eighteenth-Century: Sharia Court of Rumelia112
8Muslim Women in Court According to the Sijill of Late Ottoman Jaffa and Haifa: Some Methodological Notes126
9Marriage among Merchant Families in Seventeenth-Century Cairo143
10The Ties That Bound: Women and Households in Eighteenth-Century Egypt155
11Drawing Boundaries and Defining Spaces: Women and Space in Ottoman Iraq173
12Textual Differentiation in the Damascus Sijill: Religious Discrimination or Politics of Gender?191
13Reflections on the Personal Laws of Egyptian Copts202
14The Rights of Children and the Responsibilities of Women: Women as Wasis in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840219
15Adults and Minors in Ottoman Sharia Courts and Modern Law236
16Confined, Battered, and Repudiated Women in Tunis since the Eighteenth Century259
17Law and Gender Violence in Ottoman and Modern Egypt277
18Women and Society in the Tulip Era, 1718-1730290
Glossary of Arabic Terms307
Glossary of Turkish Terms313
Works Cited315
Index331

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