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  3. Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 June 2009
      21 April 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511497506
      9780521847155
      9780521045803
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497506
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.406kg, 156 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.236kg, 156 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
      Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Middle East History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Middle East History
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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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    '… Rapoport's study is a valuable and most welcome contribution to the literature on medieval Mamlūk society, especially with regard to the position of women in a patrilineal and patriarchal society.'

    Source: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

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