Family and Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine (Middle East Beyond Dominant Paradigms)

by IrisAgmon (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $50.72

  The popular image of the family and the court of law in Muslim societies is one of traditional, unchanging social frameworks. The author suggests a different view. This book challenges assumptions about family, courts of law, and the nature of modernity in Muslim societies against the backdrop of Haifa and Jaffa during the long 19th-century.