In an rewarding new study, 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, and Tucker shows how fatwa s, or legal opinions, greatly influenced these roles. She challenges prevailing views on Islam and gender, revealing Islamic law to have been more...
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17th Century Feminist Theory Gender & the Law Gender Studies History Islam Law Legal History Legal Theory & Systems Middle East Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Palestine Politics & Social Sciences Religious Studies Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Syria Textbooks Women in History Women's Studies