Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society - Herausgegeben Im Auftrage Der Savigny-Stiftung

Informationen zum Autor Yossef Rapoport is an associate member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Klappentext The author explores gender relations, marriage and divorce in medieval Islamic society. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Glossary; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Marriage, divorce and the gender division of property; 2. Working women, single women and the rise of the female rib¿t; 3. The monetization of marriage; 4. Divorce, repudiation and settlement; 5. Repudiation as public power; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Yossef Rapoport, Yossef (University of Oxford) Rapoport
• Assisted by: David Morgan (Editor), Felix Lieberman (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2005
• EAN: 9780521847155
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84715-5
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous