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Judith E. Tucker

In the House of the Law

Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine

Judith E. Tucker

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English
University of California Press
03 July 2000
General encyclopaedias; Middle Eastern history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Islamic studies; Islamic law; Family law
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.
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Imprint:   University of California Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Revised ed.
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   363g
ISBN:   9780520224742
ISBN 10:   0520224744
Pages:   232
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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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The history of women in the Middle East is seen in a new perspective in Judith Tucker's study of Islamic law in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Syria and Palestine .Shofar


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