ISBN10: 052184715X, ISBN13: 9780521847155, [publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr] Hardcover 137 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]

Cambridge University Press, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light shelfwear to dj. Contents clean and tight. 137 pages, index, notes, bibliography. 2005. Cambridge University Press ISBN 052184715X 9780521847155 [US]

Hardback. New. Yossef Rapoport explores the prevalence of divorce in medieval Islamic society. In so doing, he reveals that women possessed a surprising level of economic independence which they manipulated to initiate divorce as often as men. The book makes a significant contribution to the social history of an understudied period. ISBN 052184715x 9780521847155 [GB]

ISBN10: 052184715X, ISBN13: 9780521847155, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates of divorce against the Islamic ideal of marriage,Yossef Rapoport radically challenges usual assumptions about the legal inferiority of Muslim women and their economic dependence on men. He argues that marriages in late medieval Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem had little in common with the patriarchal models advocated by jurists and moralists. The transmission of dowries, women's access to waged labour, and the strict separation of property between spouses made divorce easy and normative, initiated by wives as often as by their husbands. This carefully researched work of social history is interwoven with intimate accounts of individual medieval lives, making for a truly compelling read. It will be of interest to scholars of all disciplines concerned with the history of women and gender in Islam.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2005]
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