"Off the straight path"
Subtitle: illicit sex, law, and community in Ottoman Aleppo
By: Elyse Semerdjian.
Series: Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780815631736
Subjects: Adultery (Islamic law); Fornication (Islamic law); Rape (Islamic law); Domestic relations (Islamic law); Customary law (Islamic law) -- Syria -- Aleppo; Punishment (Islamic law)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Zina discourses; title: Zina in Islamic legal discourse; title: Zina in Ottoman legal discourse; title: Law in practice; title: People and court: policing public morality in the streets of Aleppo; title: Prostitutes, soldiers, and the people: monitoring morality through customary law; title: In harm's way: domestic violence and rape in the Sharia courts of Aleppo; title: Conclusion.