In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine

by Judith E. Tucker

Book Overview

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 fatwas, or legal opinions, greatly influenced these roles. She challenges prevailing views on Islam and gender, revealing Islamic law to have been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520224744
• ISBN13: 9780520224742
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"