This is a study of women and family in the cities of the Near East in the Mamluk period (1250-1517). The argument advanced is that gender relationships within families went through a radical transformation in the period under discussion, a transformation that reflected wider soc…
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As Muslim communities integrate into mainstream American society, it is important to examine how the youngest of the Abrahamic traditions will be absorbed into the dynamics at work in American society. Muslims retain their separate identity, nevertheless, there is a clear tenden…
This dissertation examines Palestinian Muslim women's interactions and negotiations within the Jerusalem Shari'a Court from 1925-1939. My research on nafaqa (so-called maintenance), female-initiated divorce, and child custody cases from Jerusalem and its surrounding villages exp…
Islamic courts in Zanzibar, Tanzania, have jurisdiction over family and personal status matters. This consists of marriage and divorce disputes, some types of inheritance claims, and child custody cases. Islamic judges, called kadhis , and Islamic courts have been present in Zan…
Islamic Law in Canada: Marriage and Divorce provides an analysis of how Canadian society and the Canadian judicial system have responded to the use of the Shari'a to resolve issues relating to Islamic marriage and divorce in Canada. This dissertation explores two instances where…
This dissertation takes up the issue of ijtihad , creative legal reform, as defined and upheld by contemporary `ulama (traditionally educated Muslim religious scholars). It centers in on a particular issue--women's right to divorce--within a particular context--early 20th centur…
This dissertation examines how Jews in medieval Egypt negotiated marital disputes while maneuvering between individual desires, legal prescriptions and societal expectations. The main sources for this investigation are the documents of the Cairo Geniza, a rich cache of manuscrip…
Divorce is never easy. But for kids who have parents in conflict with one another, or where one parent is so hostile that he or she is actively trying to undermine the kids' relationship with the other parent, divorce can be unbearable. This workbook is designed especially for k…
