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Cover for the book: Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History
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Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History

Edited by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol

Paper $19.95 | 9780815603832Add to cart

Hardcover $45.00x | 9780815626886Add to cart

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Subjects: Middle East studies, women's and gender studies

"This outstanding collection of essays not only creates a new picture of the lives of women and families in the Ottoman Empire but also clearly establishes the rich potential of Islamic legal records for the field of social history."—American Historical Review

Description

The eighteen essays in this volume cover a wide range of material and reevaluate women’s studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari’a courts, the Ottoman household, Dhimmi communities, children and family law, morality, and violence.

About the Author

Amira El Azhary Sonbol is assistant professor of society, history and law at Georgetown University, and the author of The Creation of a Medical Profession in Egypt, 1800-1922, also published by Syracuse University Press.


Related Interest

The Creation of a Medical Profession in Egypt, 1800-1922
Gulf Women

Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East

6 x 9, 0 pages

June 1996

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