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In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine Judith E. Tucker Revised edition
In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
Judith E. 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, this title shows how fatwas, or legal opinions, greatly influenced these roles.
232 pages, 1 map
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 3, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520224742 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 178 × 228 × 19 mm · 342 g |
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