Family and Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine
(Part of the Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms Series)
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The popular image of the family and the court of law in Muslim societies is one of traditional, unchanging social frameworks. Iris Agmon suggests an entirely different view, grounded in a detailed study of nineteenth-century Ottoman court records from the flourishing Palestinian port cities of Haifa and Jaffa. She depicts the shari'a Muslim court of law as a dynamic institution, capable of adapting to rapid and profound social changes indeed, of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:081563062X
ISBN13:9780815630623
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.6" x 9.4"
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