Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender

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333 Abbas II (Khedive), 258–66, 268n. 41. See also Ismail (Khedive), monogamy, Muhammad Ali, Tawfiq (Khedive) Abd al-Hamid II (Sultan), 53. See also Istanbul, Ottoman Empire al-Abid, Ahmad Izzat Pasha, 54 Abdin, 29–30, 37, 50n. 57 Acre, 203. See also Palestine agency, 8, 10–11, 13, 16, 85, 92, 173, 179; women’s 114–15, 142 Agmon, Iris, 13, 234, 238 Aleppo, 54, 60, 74n. 48, 91, 205. See also Syria Alexandria, 26–28. See also Egypt Algeria, 30 Ali Pasha Mubarak, 28, 252 Anatolia, 7, 52, 60, 227n. 35, 243n. 19; Ottoman census of, 24–25. See also Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, Rumelia Anglo-Ottoman Commercial Treaty (1838), 53. See also Ottoman Empire Anderson, Michael, 3 Arab city, 28–30, 33 Ariès, Philippe, 7 Asyut, 39 attorneys, 212, 215–16, 218, 222, 228n. 42. See also inheritance, Islamic court records, Islamic law, Islamic law courts, judges, lawsuits, litigation, power of attorney, sources authority, 26, 102, 173, 174, 231; within the family, 12, 38, 175, 187, 190, 193; of Islamic law court, 174, 179, 196, 206, 216; political, 28–29, 199n. 20; village, 140; of women, 92, 95 Ayn al-Fija, 54 al-Azhar, 30, 33, 42, 209 Badawi family, 179–82, 184–87 Bakhtin, M.M., 232 Barkan, Ömer Lutfi, 51, 56–57, 60 basic rosters: of 1885 and 1907, 52–57, 59, 68, 72nn. 8, 21, 75n. 63. See also census, Ottoman Empire, sources bayt, 78, 80, 85; and ila (colloquial for a’ila), 81, 96n. 18. See also hane, household Behar, Cem, 7, 18n. 8, 52–53, 72– 73n. 22, 238, 243n. 19. See also Duben, Alan Beirut, 203. See also Arab city, Lebanon birth control, 164, 169–70n. 17 Boir Ahmadi, 9, 153–54, 157, 168nn. 7, 8, 168–69n. 10 334 Index Bourdieu, Pierre, 232, 242, 294 Bowring report, 70 bridal gifts, 9, 156, 160. See also bride-price, bridewealth, gold jewelry, husbands, mahr, marriages , property, weddings, wives bride-price, 156–57, 160–61, 163, 165, 169n. 12. See also bride-price, bridewealth, gold jewelry, husbands, mahr, marriages, property, weddings, wives bridewealth, 156–57, 160, 165, 169n. 12. See also bride-price, bridewealth, gold jewelry, husbands, mahr, marriages, property, weddings, wives British Department of Lands and Surveys in Trans-Jordan, 120 Bulaq, 31, 37, 86 Cairo, 3, 79, 83, 86, 91, 248, 251, 259; and census of 1848, 6, 23–50; demography of, 23, 45. See also Arab city, Egypt, Harat al-Nasara, Harat al-Yahud, Misr el-Qadima Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, 5, 7, 52, 71n. 3 capitalism, 5, 88–89, 153, 158, 167, 202, 273 census, 3, 6, 72n. 17; British (1922), 223n. 3; of Cairo in 1848, 6, 23–50; of 1885 and 1907, 7, 238; of 1882, 46n. 10; of 1868, 25; of 1828–29, 54; and modernity, 24, 33; of 1996, 47n. 19; of 1905–6, 54–55, 67, 72–73n. 22; of 1917, 46n. 5; of 1910, 120, 135, 143–44n. 3; of Ottoman Anatolia and Rumelia in 1831, 24. See also basic rosters, Ottoman Empire, sources children, 87, 88, 93, 122, 130, 155, 253, 277, 281, 284; and census of 1848, 24, 27, 33–34, 36–37, 42; military conscription of, 24; and parents, 4, 44, 153, 280, 291. See also education, fathers, mothers, parents Christians, 27, 34, 40–41; Armenian Orthodox, 40; Greek Orthodox, 30; military conscription of, 24; of the Ottoman Empire, 40–41; and slavery, 48n. 26; Syrian Catholics, 40; Syrian Orthodox, 30. See also Copts class, 175, 220, 238, 272; American middle, 271, 275–77, 282–83, 293; emigrant middle, 278; lower, 202; middle, 159, 166–67, 202, 248, 266, 281, 288–89, 292, 296n. 12; upper, 222, 250–53, 256, 262–63, 266; working, 271 Cleveland Americanization Committee , 277 concubinage, 14, 31, 39, 77, 79–80, 82, 86, 92–93, 248–51, 254, 256–58, 262–65. See also harem, inheritance , slavery, women Copts, 27, 29–31, 33–34, 40–41, 47n. 19. See also Christians cotton, 88 Cromer, Lord, 248, 257, 265. See also England Cyrenaica, 30 Damascus, 3, 7–8, 203, 205; and census of 1907, 7; households in, 51–75. See also Syria Damietta, 28 Darb al-Ahmar, 37 Deh Koh, 9, 153–54, 158–59, 162–67, 169n. 6, 168–69n. 10, 169nn. 14, 15. See also Iran demography, 2, 8, 10, 15, 117n. 16, 141, 252; and Ömer Lutfi Barkan, 51; of Cairo, 23, 45; of...