| Description |
xii, 341 pages : illustrations. |
| Series |
SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East
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SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Family and household in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Philippe Fargues -- Size and structure of Damascus households in the late Ottoman period as compared with Istanbul households / Tomoki Okawara -- From warrior-grandees to domesticated bourgeoisie: the transformation of the elite Egyptian household into a Western-style nuclear family / Mary Ann Fay -- Women's gold: shifting styles of embodying family relations / Annelies Moors -- "Al-Mahr Zaituna": property and family in the hills facing Palestine, 1880-1940 / Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith -- Tribal enterprises and marriage issues in twentieth-century Iran / Erika Friedl -- Adjudicating family: the Islamic court and disputes between kin in greater Syria, 1700-1860 / Beshara Doumani -- Text, court, and family in late-nineteenth-century Palestine / Iris Agmon -- Property, language, and law: conventions of social discourse in seventeeth-century Tarablus al-Sham / Heather Ferguson -- Ambiguous modernization: the transition to monogamy in the Khedival house of Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno -- "Queen of the house?": making immigrant Lebanese families in the Mahjar / Akram F. Khater. |
| Subject |
Families -- Middle East -- History.
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Families. |
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Middle East. |
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History. |
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Domestic relations (Islamic law) -- Middle East -- History.
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Domestic relations (Islamic law) |
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Middle East -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Middle East -- History.
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| Added Author |
Doumani, Beshara, 1957-
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| ISBN |
0791456803 paperback alkaline paper |
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079145679X alkaline paper |
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