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

by JudithETucker (Author)

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  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, this title shows how fatwas, or legal opinions, greatly influenced these roles.