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Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History
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Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History. Edited by Amira El Azhary Sonbol. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1996. 357 pp. $19.95.
This volume features a series of eighteen articles by international experts, primarily historians, in the field of Middle Eastern Women's Studies. The authors offer a fresh look at developments in women's status in Muslim societies under Ottoman rule, especially in the period of transition from the seventeenth century to the era of the modern nation-state. These studies concentrate on disclosing premodern social practices rather than on analyzing the abstract ideals of normative religious and legal texts. The sources are often …
