Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in

The eighteen essays in this volume cover a wide range of material and revaluate women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari's courts, the Ottoman household, Dhimmi communities, children and family law, morality, and violence.

Foreword
Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Women and Citizenship in the Qur'an	p. 23
Women and Modernization: A Reevaluation	p. 39
La Femme Arabe: Women and Sexuality in France's North African Empire	p. 52
Organization of Culture and the Construction of the Family in the Modern Middle East	p. 64
Women, Law, and Imperial Justice in Ottoman Istanbul in the Late Seventeenth Century	p. 81
The Family and Gender Laws in Egypt During the Ottoman Period	p. 96
The Divorce Between Zubaida Hatun and Esseid Osman Aga: Women in the Eighteenth-Century: Sharia Court of Rumelia	p. 112
Muslim Women in Court According to the Sijill of Late Ottoman Jaffa and Haifa: Some Methodological Notes	p. 126
Marriage among Merchant Families in Seventeenth-Century Cairo	p. 143
The Ties That Bound: Women and Households in Eighteenth-Century Egypt	p. 155
Drawing Boundaries and Defining Spaces: Women and Space in Ottoman Iraq	p. 173
Textual Differentiation in the Damascus Sijill: Religious Discrimination or Politics of Gender?	p. 191
Reflections on the Personal Laws of Egyptian Copts	p. 202
The Rights of Children and the Responsibilities of Women: Women as Wasis in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840	p. 219
Adults and Minors in Ottoman Sharia Courts and Modern Law	p. 236
Confined, Battered, and Repudiated Women in Tunis since the Eighteenth Century	p. 259
Law and Gender Violence in Ottoman and Modern Egypt	p. 277
Women and Society in the Tulip Era, 1718-1730	p. 290
Glossary of Arabic Terms	p. 307
Glossary of Turkish Terms	p. 313
Works Cited	p. 315
Index	p. 331
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Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History

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