Family life in the Ottoman Mediterranean
Subtitle: a social history
By: Beshara B. Doumani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780521133272; 9780521766609
Subjects: Families; History; Domestic relations (Islamic law); Social history
Description: "In writings about Islam, women and modernity in the Middle East, family and religion are frequently invoked but rarely historicized. Based on a wide range of local sources spanning two centuries (1660-1860), Beshara B. Doumani argues that there is no such thing as the Muslim or Arab family type that is so central to Orientalist, nationalist, and Islamist narratives. Rather, one finds dramatic regional differences, even within the same cultural zone, in the ways that family was understood, organized, and reproduced. In his comparative examination of the property devolution strategies and gender regimes in the context of local political economies, Doumani offers a groundbreaking examination of the stories and priorities of ordinary people and how they shaped the making of the modern Middle East"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-332) and index.