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Wives and work : Islamic law and ethics before modernity / Marion Holmes Katz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katz, Marion Holmes, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Marriage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- It is widely held today that classical Islamic law denies that wives have any obligation to do housework. Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on wives' domestic labor that recasts the historical relationship between Islamic law and ethics.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- ONE Domestic Labor in the Literature of Zuhd (Renunciation) and in Early Mālikī Texts
- TWO Falsafa and Fiqh in the Writings of al-Māwardī
- THREE Legal and Ethical Obligation in the Mabsūṭ of al-Sarakhsī
- FOUR Marriage Reimagined The Work of Ibn Qudāma and Ibn Taymīya
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-55670-5
- OCLC:
- 1290721812
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