ISBN:
9780520925380
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0520925386
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0585079382
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9780585079387
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 221 pages)
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map
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tucker, Judith E In the house of the law
DDC:
305.42095691
Keywords:
Women Legal status, laws, etc
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History
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Syria
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Women Legal status, laws, etc
;
History
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Palestine
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Women Social conditions
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Syria
;
Women Social conditions
;
Palestine
;
Women (Islamic law)
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Women Legal status, laws, etc
;
History
;
Women Social conditions
;
Women Social conditions
;
Women Legal status, laws, etc
;
History
;
Islamitisch recht
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Sekseverschillen
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Vrouwen
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Rechtspositie
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory
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HISTORY ; Middle East ; General
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Women (Islamic law)
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Women ; Legal status, laws, etc
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Women ; Social conditions
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History
;
Turkey History
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Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
;
Middle East
;
Palestine
;
Syria
;
Turkey
;
Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
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Middle East ; Palestine
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Syria
;
Turkey
;
Syrië
;
Palestina
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
"In the House of the Law examines how law, in both theory and practice, shaped gender roles in Palestine and Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was a time during which Muslim legal thinkers gave a great deal of attention to women's roles in society. Challenging prevailing views on Islam and gender as well as contemporary Islamist interpretations of the tradition, Judith Tucker shows that Islamic law was more fluid and flexible than previously thought." "Using primary materials previously unmined by scholars, including the fatwas of prominent jurists and the Islamic law, or sharia, records of three Islamic courts - Damascus, Jerusalem, and Nablus - Tucker explores the ways in which Islamic legal thinkers and the court system understood the message of Islam for women and gender relations. By examining court cases on marriage, divorce, childrearing, and sexuality, Tucker sheds light on the relations between men and women, parents and children in the societies of those times."--Jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index. - Description based on print version record
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