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Title Family history in the Middle East : household, property, and gender / Beshara Doumani, editor.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East
SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East.
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 seventeenth-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.
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Subject Families -- Middle East.
Families.
Middle East.
Domestic relations (Islamic law) -- Middle East -- History.
Domestic relations (Islamic law)
History.
Middle East -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Middle East -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Doumani, Beshara, 1957-
Other Form: Print version: Family history in the Middle East. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003 079145679X 0791456803 (DLC) 2002067043 (OCoLC)49698956
ISBN 1417523980 (electronic book)
9781417523986 (electronic book)
079145679X (alkaline paper)
9780791456798 (alkaline paper)
0791456803 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780791456804 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0791487075
9780791487075