ISBN:
1417523980
,
9781417523986
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (1 v.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East
Parallel Title:
Print version Family history in the Middle East
DDC:
306.850956
Keywords:
Families Middle East
;
Domestic relations (Islamic law) History
;
Middle East
;
Families
;
Domestic relations (Islamic law) History
;
Domestic relations (Islamic law) History
;
Families
;
Domestic relations (Islamic law)
;
Families
;
Social conditions
;
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference
;
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family
;
History
;
Middle East Social conditions
;
Middle East History
;
Middle East
;
Middle East History
;
Middle East Social conditions
;
Middle East Social conditions
;
Middle East History
;
Middle East
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
Annotation
Abstract:
Despite the constant refrain that family is the most important social institution in Middle Eastern societies, only recently has it become the focus for rethinking the modern history of the Middle East. This book introduces exciting new findings by historians, anthropologists, and historical demographers that challenge pervasive assumptions about family made in the past. Using specific case studies based on original archival research and fieldwork, the contributors focus on the interplay between micro and macro processes of change and bridge the gap between materialist and discursive frameworks of analysis. They reveal the flexibility and dynamism of family life and show the complex juxtaposition of different rhythms of time (individual time, family time, historical time). These findings interface directly with and demonstrate the need for a critical reassessment of current debates on gender, modernity, and Islam
Abstract:
Family and household in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Philippe Fargues -- Size and structure of Damascus households in the late Ottoman period as compared with Istanbul households / Tomoki Okawara -- From warrior-grandees to domesticated bourgeoisie: the transformation of the elite Egyptian household into a Western-style nuclear family / Mary Ann Fay -- Women's gold: shifting styles of embodying family relations / Annelies Moors -- "Al-Mahr Zaituna": property and family in the hills facing Palestine, 1880-1940 / Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith -- Tribal enterprises and marriage issues in twentieth-century Iran / Erika Friedl -- Adjudicating family: the Islamic court and disputes between kin in greater Syria, 1700-1860 / Beshara Doumani -- Text, court, and family in late-nineteenth-century Palestine / Iris Agmon -- Property, language, and law: conventions of social discourse in seventeenth-century Tarablus al-Sham / Heather Ferguson -- Ambiguous modernization: the transition to monogamy in the Khedival house of Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno -- "Queen of the house?": making immigrant Lebanese families in the Mahjar / Akram F. Khater.
Description / Table of Contents:
Family and household in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Philippe FarguesSize and structure of Damascus households in the late Ottoman period as compared with Istanbul households / Tomoki Okawara -- From warrior-grandees to domesticated bourgeoisie: the transformation of the elite Egyptian household into a Western-style nuclear family / Mary Ann Fay -- Women's gold: shifting styles of embodying family relations / Annelies Moors -- "Al-Mahr Zaituna": property and family in the hills facing Palestine, 1880-1940 / Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith -- Tribal enterprises and marriage issues in twentieth-century Iran / Erika Friedl -- Adjudicating family: the Islamic court and disputes between kin in greater Syria, 1700-1860 / Beshara Doumani -- Text, court, and family in late-nineteenth-century Palestine / Iris Agmon -- Property, language, and law: conventions of social discourse in seventeenth-century Tarablus al-Sham / Heather Ferguson -- Ambiguous modernization: the transition to monogamy in the Khedival house of Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno -- "Queen of the house?": making immigrant Lebanese families in the Mahjar / Akram F. Khater.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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