TY - BOOK
T1 - Family and Court
T2 - Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine
AU - Agmon, Iris
N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The popular image of the family and the court of law in Muslim societies is one of traditional, unchanging social frameworks. Iris Agmon suggests an entirely different view, grounded in a detailed study of nineteenth-century Ottoman court records from the flourishing Palestinian port cities of Haifa and Jaffa. She depicts the shari'a Muslim court of law as a dynamic institution, capable of adapting to rapid and profound social changes indeed, of playing an active role in generating these changes. Court and family interact and transform themselves, each other, and the society of which they form part.
AB - The popular image of the family and the court of law in Muslim societies is one of traditional, unchanging social frameworks. Iris Agmon suggests an entirely different view, grounded in a detailed study of nineteenth-century Ottoman court records from the flourishing Palestinian port cities of Haifa and Jaffa. She depicts the shari'a Muslim court of law as a dynamic institution, capable of adapting to rapid and profound social changes indeed, of playing an active role in generating these changes. Court and family interact and transform themselves, each other, and the society of which they form part.
KW - Domestic relations (Islamic law) -- Israel
KW - Families -- Israel -- History
KW - Social change -- Israel -- History -- 19th century
M3 - Book
SN - 9780815630623
T3 - Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
BT - Family and Court
PB - Syracuse University Press
CY - Syracuse, N.Y
ER -