Women, the family, and divorce laws in Islamic history, edited by Amira El Azhary Sonbol ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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Women, the family, and divorce laws in Islamic history, edited by Amira El Azhary Sonbol ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Statement of responsibility

edited by Amira El Azhary Sonbol ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Instantiates

• Women, the family, and divorce laws in Islamic history

Publication

• Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1996

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-329) and index

Contents

• Foreword / Elizabeth Warnock Fernea -- 1. Women and Citizenship in the Qur'an / Barbara Freyer Stowasser -- 2. Women and Modernization: A Reevaluation / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot -- 3. La Femme Arabe: Women and Sexuality in France's North African Empire / Julia Clancy-Smith -- 4. Organization of Culture and the Construction of the Family in the Modern Middle East / Peter Gran -- 5. Women, Law, and Imperial Justice in Ottoman Istanbul in the Late Seventeenth Century / Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr -- 6. The Family and Gender Laws in Egypt During the Ottoman Period / Abdal-Rehim Abdal-Rahman Abdal-Rehim -- 7. The Divorce Between Zubaida Hatun and Esseid Osman Aga: Women in the Eighteenth-Century: Sharia Court of Rumelia / Svetlana Ivanova -- 8. Muslim Women in Court According to the Sijill of Late Ottoman Jaffa and Haifa: Some Methodological Notes / Iris Agmon -- 9. Marriage among Merchant Families in Seventeenth-Century Cairo / Nelly Hanna
• 10. The Ties That Bound: Women and Households in Eighteenth-Century Egypt / Mary Ann Fay -- 11. Drawing Boundaries and Defining Spaces: Women and Space in Ottoman Iraq / Dina Rizk Khouri -- 12. Textual Differentiation in the Damascus Sijill: Religious Discrimination or Politics of Gender? / Najwa al-Qattan -- 13. Reflections on the Personal Laws of Egyptian Copts / Mohamad Afifi -- 14. The Rights of Children and the Responsibilities of Women: Women as Wasis in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840 / Margaret L. Meriwether -- 15. Adults and Minors in Ottoman Sharia Courts and Modern Law / Amira El Azhary Sonbol -- 16. Confined, Battered, and Repudiated Women in Tunis since the Eighteenth Century / Dalenda Largueche -- 17. Law and Gender Violence in Ottoman and Modern Egypt / Amira El Azhary Sonbol -- 18. Women and Society in the Tulip Era, 1718-1730 / Madeline C. Zilfi -- Glossary of Arabic Terms -- Glossary of Turkish Terms

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24 cm.

Edition

1st ed.

Extent

xvi, 357 p.

Isbn

9780815603832

Isbn Type

(pbk. : alk. paper)

Lccn

95040354

Record ID

99126296810001651

System control number

• (CaMWU)u976904-01umb_inst
• (Sirsi) AJR-8326
• 06125
• (OCoLC)33079129