Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-521-76660-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

In writings about Islam, women, and modernity in the Middle East, family and religion are frequently invoked but rarely historicized. Accessibly written and based on a wide range of local sources spanning two centuries (1660-1860), this book shows that there is no such thing as a typical Muslim or Arab family. Rather, it reveals dramatic regional differences, even within the same cultural zone, in the ways that family is understood, organized, and reproduced. By concentrating on family life in the Ottoman Mediterranean, in particular in what is now Lebanon and Palestine, Beshara B. Doumani skilfully uses examples of family waqf endowments, lawsuits between kin, and other cases from the shari?a courts to reconstruct the encounters between kin and court and kin in court. Through his comparative examination of the transformations of family, property, and gender regimes, Doumani offers a ground-breaking examination of the stories and priorities of ordinary people. By doing so, he challenges prevailing assumptions about modern Middle Eastern societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doumani, Beshara B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Maryam's final word; 2. Hamida's children come of age: the shari?a court and its archives; 3. The different designs of Husayn and ?Abd al-Wahid: the waqf as a family charter; 4. Good deeds: the family waqf as a social act; 5. Who's in? Who's out? The waqf as a boundary marker; 6. Property and gender: the political economy of difference; 7. Fatima's determination; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Doumani, Beshara B.
Beshara B. Doumani is the Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History and the Director of Middle East Studies at Brown University, Rhode Island. He is the author of Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 (1995) and the editor of Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender (2003).