In the house of the law : gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine / Judith E. Tucker.
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998. Description: xi, 221 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0520210395 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9774245342
- 9789774245343
- 305.42095691 21 T.J.I
- KMC145.W64 T83 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-216) and index.
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.
Explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles in society, this title shows how fatwas, or legal opinions, greatly influenced these roles.
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