Family and court
Subtitle: legal culture and modernity in late Ottoman Palestine
By: Iris Agmon.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Syracuse, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Domestic relations (Islamic law) -- Palestine; Family -- Palestine -- History; Social change -- Palestine -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Entering a sociolegal arena; title: Historical settings; title: Family and court; title: Presenting claims; title: The court arena; title: Documenting the family; title: Negotiating versions; title: Gender and family; title: Attorneys and the justice of the qadi; title: Reshaping solutions; title: Family experiences; title: Family, court, and modernity.