Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Albany, : State University of New York Press, 2003
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (354 p.)
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Disciplina |
306.85/0956
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Altri autori (Persone) |
DoumaniBeshara <1957->
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Collana |
SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East
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Soggetto topico |
Families - Middle East - History
Domestic relations (Islamic law) - Middle East - History
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ISBN |
0-7914-8707-5
1-4175-2398-0
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Family History in the Middle East -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction by Beshara Doumani -- I. Family and Household -- 2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo by Philippe Fargues -- 3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households by Tomoki Okawara -- 4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family by Mary Ann Fay -- II: Family, Gender, and Property -- 5. Women's Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations by Annelies Moors -- 6. "Al-Mahr Zaituna": Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880-1940 by Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith -- III: Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law -- 9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine by Iris Agmon -- 10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham by Heather Ferguson -- IV: Family as a Discourse -- 11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt by Kenneth M. Cuno -- 12. "Queen of the House?" Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar by Akram F. Khater -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East.
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Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817362903321 |