Women, family, and gender in Islamic law
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- ISBN: 9780521830447 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0521830443 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9780521537476 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0521537479 (pbk.)
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x, 255 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-246) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Introduction -- Law, women, and gender -- Islamic law -- Islamic law and gender -- 2. Woman as wife and man as husband: making the marital bargain -- Islamic marriage: the legal tradition -- Islamic marriage: pre-twentieth-century practices -- Reform and marriage -- Recent developments -- 3. Woman and man as divorced: asserting rights -- Islamic divorce: the legal tradition -- Islamic divorce: pre-twentieth-century practices -- Reform and divorce -- Recent developments -- 4. Woman and man as legal subjects: managing and testifying -- Legal capacity and the Islamic juridical tradition -- The pre-twentieth-century legal subject -- Reform and the legal subject -- Recent developments -- |
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Subject: | Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law) Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law) Divorce (Islamic law) Domestic relations (Islamic law) |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | KBP 526.3 T83 2008 (Text) | 26040002797989 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |