| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index. |
| Contents |
The law, the courts, and the Muftis -- With her consent: marriage -- Release her with kindness: divorce -- The fullness of affection: mothering and fathering -- If she were ready for men: sexuality and reproduction. |
| Summary |
"In the House of the Law examines how law, in both theory and practice, shaped gender roles in Palestine and Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was a time during which Muslim legal thinkers gave a great deal of attention to women's roles in society. Challenging prevailing views on Islam and gender as well as contemporary Islamist interpretations of the tradition, Judith Tucker shows that Islamic law was more fluid and flexible than previously thought." "Using primary materials previously unmined by scholars, including the fatwas of prominent jurists and the Islamic law, or sharia, records of three Islamic courts - Damascus, Jerusalem, and Nablus - Tucker explores the ways in which Islamic legal thinkers and the court system understood the message of Islam for women and gender relations. By examining court cases on marriage, divorce, childrearing, and sexuality, Tucker sheds light on the relations between men and women, parents and children in the societies of those times."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Syria -- History.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Syria. |
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History. |
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Palestine -- History.
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Women (Islamic law)
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Women (Islamic law) |
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Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
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Women -- Syria -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Palestine -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory. |
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Social conditions. |
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. |
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Women -- Social conditions. |
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Middle East -- Palestine. |
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Turkey. |
| Chronological Term |
1288-1918 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: In the house of the law Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998. 0520210395 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 97027168 |
| ISBN |
9780520925380 ebook |
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0520925386 |
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0520210395 cloth alkaline paper |
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0585079382 (electronic book) |
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9780585079387 (electronic book) |
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9780520210394 |
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0520210395 |
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