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In the house of the law : gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine / Judith E. Tucker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998. Description: xi, 221 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520210395 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9774245342
  • 9789774245343
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42095691 21 T.J.I
LOC classification:
  • KMC145.W64 T83 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Summary: 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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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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