Modernizing Marriage - Family, Ideology, Law in Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Century

Examines Egyptian family history in a comparative and transnational context, addressing issues of colonial modernity and colonial knowledge, Islamic law and legal reform, social history, and the history of women and gender.

About the author

Kenneth M. Cuno is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Pasha's Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt,1740-1858, coeditor of Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia, and coeditor of Race and Slavery in the Middle East.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth M Cuno, Kenneth M. Cuno
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780815630067
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3006-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Judaic Traditions in Literatur; Judaic Traditions in Literatur; Gender and Globalization
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history