Title: "Off the straight path" : illicit sex, law, and community in Ottoman Aleppo /
Authors: Semerdjian, Elyse.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Adultery (Islamic law); Fornication (Islamic law); Rape (Islamic law); Domestic relations (Islamic law); Customary law (Islamic law) Syria Aleppo.; Punishment (Islamic law)
Contents: Zina in Islamic legal discourse -- Zina in Ottoman law -- People and court : policing public morality in the streets of Aleppo -- Prostitutes, soldiers, and the people : monitoring morality through customary law -- In harm's way : domestic violence and rape in the Shari'a courts of Aleppo.