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In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
In the House of the Law Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
Author: Judith E. Tucker
In an rewarding new study, Tucker 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, and Tucker shows how fatwas, or legal opinions, greatly influen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520224742
ISBN-10: 0520224744
Publication Date: 7/3/2000
Pages: 232
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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