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Title Women, the family, and divorce laws in Islamic history / edited by Amira El Azhary Sonbol ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Edition 1st ed
Published Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 357 pages)
Series Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
Contents Women and citizenship in the Qur'an / Barbara Freyer Stowasser -- Women and modernization : a reevaluation / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot -- La femme arabe : women and sexuality in France's North African Empire / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Organization of culture and the construction of the family in the modern Middle East / Peter Gran -- Women, law and imperial justice in Otoman Istanbul in the late seventeenth century / Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr -- The family and gender laws in Egypt during the Ottoman period / Abdal-Rehim Abdal-Rahman Abdal-Rehim -- The divorce between Zubaida Hatun and Esseid Osman Aǧa : women in eighteenth-century Shariʻa court of Rumelia / Svetlana Ivanova -- Muslim women in court according to the Sijill of late Ottoman Jaffa and Haifa : some methodological notes / Iris Agmon -- Marriage among merchant families in seventeenth-century Cairo / Nelly Hanna -- The ties that bound : women and households in eighteenth-century Egypt / Mary Ann Fay -- Drawing boundaries and defining spaces : women and space in Ottoman Iraq / Dina Rizk Khouri -- Textual differentiation in the Damascus Sijill : religious discrimination or politics of gender? / Najwa al-Qattan -- Reflections on the personal laws of Egyptian Copts / Mohamad Afifi -- The rights of children and the responsibilities of women : women as Wasis in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840 / Margaret L. Meriwether -- Adults and minors in Ottoman Shariʻa courts and modern law / Amira El Azhary Sonbol -- Confined, battered, and repudiated women in Tunis since the eighteenth century / Dalenda Largueche -- Law and gender violence in Ottoman and modern Egypt / Amira El Azhary Sonbol -- Women and society in the Tulip Era, 1718-1730 / Madeline C. Zilfi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-329) and index
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SUBJECT Börngen, ... gnd
Subject Muslim women -- History
Women (Islamic law) -- Arab countries
Domestic relations (Islamic law) -- Arab countries
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Domestic relations (Islamic law)
Muslim women
Women (Islamic law)
Islam
Recht
Aufsatzsammlung
Ehescheidung
Familienrecht
Frau
Vrouwen.
Familie.
Familierecht.
Echtscheidingsrecht.
Islamitisch recht.
Arab countries
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Sonbol, Amira El Azhary.
ISBN 9780815650478
0815650477