Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean : A Social History
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521766605
ISBN-13
9780521766609
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 8th, 2017
Print length
370 Pages
Weight
720 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.70 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Middle Eastern historySocial & cultural history
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A social history of everyday family life in the Ottoman Empire, this book offers a groundbreaking examination of the relations between and transformations of family, property, and gender regimes. In addition to offering an analysis of a wide variety of sources, it also challenges prevailing assumptions about modern Middle Eastern societies.
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.
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