In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
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Judith E. Tucker (Author)
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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 influenced these roles. She challenges prevailing views on Islam and gender, revealing Islamic law to have been more fluid and flexible than previously thought. Although the legal system had a consistent patriarchal orientation, it was modulated by sensitivities to the practical needs of women, men, and children. In her comprehensive overview of a field long neglected by scholars, Tucker deepens our understanding of how societies, including our own, construct gender roles. 1 map
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Judith E. Tucker is a Professor of History at Georgetown University. She is the author of Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt (1985)and the editor of Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers (1993).
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- Contributor: Judith E. Tucker
- Imprint: University of California Press
- ISBN13: 9780520224742
- Number of Pages: 232
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x18mm
- Packaged Weight: 363
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Release Date: 2000-07-03
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Judith E. Tucker is a Professor of History at Georgetown University. She is the author of Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt (1985)and the editor of Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers (1993).
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