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

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Contents
Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation ix List of Tables and Figures xi 1. Introduction 1 Beshara Doumani I. I. I. I. I. Family and Household Family and Household Family and Household Family and Household Family and Household 2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo 23 Philippe Fargues 3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households 51 Tomoki Okawara 4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family 77 Mary Ann Fay II. II. II. II. II. Family, Gender, and Property Family, Gender, and Property Family, Gender, and Property Family, Gender, and Property Family, Gender, and Property 5. Women’s Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations 101 Annelies Moors 6. “Al-Mahr Zaituna”: Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880–1940 119 Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith vii viii Family History in the Middle East 7. Tribal Enterprises and Marriage Issues in Twentieth-Century Iran 151 Erika Friedl III. Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law III. Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law III. Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law III. Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law III. Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law 8. Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700–1860 173 Beshara Doumani 9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-NineteenthCentury Palestine 201 Iris Agmon 10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham 229 Heather Ferguson IV. Family as a Discourse IV. Family as a Discourse IV. Family as a Discourse IV. Family as a Discourse IV. Family as a Discourse 11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt 247 Kenneth M. Cuno 12. “Queen of the House?” Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar 271 Akram F. Khater Bibliography 301 Contributors 329 Index 333 SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East 341 ...