Family history in the Middle East : household, property, and gender / Beshara Doumani, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doumani, Beshara, 1957-

Series:

SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Middle East--History.

Families.

Domestic relations (Islamic law)--Middle East--History.

Domestic relations (Islamic law).

Middle East--Social conditions.

Middle East.

Middle East--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Challenges conventional assumptions about the family and the modern Middle East.

Contents:

Intro

Family History in the Middle East

Contents

Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation

List of Tables and Figures

1. Introduction by Beshara Doumani

I. Family and Household

2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo by Philippe Fargues

3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households by Tomoki Okawara

4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family by Mary Ann Fay

II: Family, Gender, and Property

5. Women's Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations by Annelies Moors

6. "Al-Mahr Zaituna": Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880-1940 by Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith

III: Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law

9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine by Iris Agmon

10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham by Heather Ferguson

IV: Family as a Discourse

11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt by Kenneth M. Cuno

12. "Queen of the House?" Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar by Akram F. Khater

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z

SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8707-5

1-4175-2398-0

OCLC:

61367685