TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tucker,Judith E.
TI  - In the house of the law: gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine 
SN  - 0520210395 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - KMC145.W64 T83 1998
U1  - 305.42095691 21
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Syria
KW  - History
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Women (Islamic law)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://repository.fue.edu.eg/xmlui/handle/123456789/3359
ER  -