035330000a22003970004500 49698956 20230520085014.0 020423s2003 nyua b s001 0 eng 079145679X (alk. paper) 9780791456798 (alk. paper) 0791456803 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780791456804 (pbk. : alk. paper) (OCoLC)49698956 (OCoLC)689889801 UIAM eng rda HQ663.3 Family history in the Middle East : household, property, and gender / Beshara Doumani, editor Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003 xii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East Includes bibliographical references and index Family and household in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Philippe Fargues -- Size and structure of Damascus households in the late Ottoman period as compared with Istanbul households / Tomoki Okawara -- From warrior-grandees to domesticated bourgeoisie: the transformation of the elite Egyptian household into a Western-style nuclear family / Mary Ann Fay -- Women's gold: shifting styles of embodying family relations / Annelies Moors -- "Al-Mahr Zaituna": property and family in the hills facing Palestine, 1880-1940 / Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith -- Tribal enterprises and marriage issues in twentieth-century Iran / Erika Friedl -- Adjudicating family: the Islamic court and disputes between kin in greater Syria, 1700-1860 / Beshara Doumani -- Text, court, and family in late-nineteenth-century Palestine / Iris Agmon -- Property, language, and law: conventions of social discourse in seventeenth-century Tarablus al-Sham / Heather Ferguson -- Ambiguous modernization: the transition to monogamy in the Khedival house of Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno -- "Queen of the house?": making immigrant Lebanese families in the Mahjar / Akram F. Khater "Despite the constant refrain that family is the most important social institution in Middle Eastern societies, only recently has it become the focus for rethinking the modern history of the Middle East. This book introduces exciting new findings by historians, anthropologists, and historical demographers that challenge pervasive assumptions about family made in the past. Using specific case studies based on original archival research and fieldwork, the contributors focus on the interplay between micro and macro processes of change and bridge the gap between materialist and discursive frameworks of analysis. They reveal the flexibility and dynamism of family life and show the complex juxtaposition of different rhythms of time (individual time, family time, historical time). These findings interface directly with and demonstrate the need for a critical reassessment of current debates on gender, modernity, and Islam." http://books.google.com/books?id=5m4pQSQuLM8C Families History Middle East 568540 Domestic relations (Islamic law) History Middle East 568541 Middle East Social conditions 56880 Middle East History 71 Aufsatzsammlung 5780 Doumani, Beshara, 1957- 568542 SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East 40584 bib-rs lcc 380085 407691 0 0 0 0 GENERAL SMNAL SMNAL OPEN 2026-03-10 179.40 HQ663.3 F198D 2003 11100370384 2026-03-10 23:18:22 1 179.40 BOOKGEN