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Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society

Rapoport, Yossef

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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.

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Title of ebook: Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society
ISBN: 9780511110221
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1669 kb
Pages: 152
Released online for download: 04-30-2005
Author of eBook: Rapoport, Yossef