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

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329 Iris Agmon Iris Agmon Iris Agmon Iris Agmon Iris Agmon is a lecturer in the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University. She is currently writing a book on family and court culture in nineteenth-century Palestine. Kenneth M. Cuno Kenneth M. Cuno Kenneth M. Cuno Kenneth M. Cuno Kenneth M. Cuno is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He researches and writes on the social and cultural history of the Middle East since 1500. His first book, The Pasha’s Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740–1858, received “honorable mention” in the Albert Hourani book prize competition of the Middle East Studies Association in 1993. He is currently writing a book on the history of the family in nineteenthcentury Egypt. Beshara Doumani Beshara Doumani Beshara Doumani Beshara Doumani Beshara Doumani is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently working on a comparative study of family history in Tripoli (Lebanon) and Nablus (Palestine) during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that focuses on the relationship between property, gender, kinship, and the praxis of Islamic law. Philippe Fargues Philippe Fargues Philippe Fargues Philippe Fargues Philippe Fargues is senior fellow at Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (Paris) and scientific director of the French journal of Middle Eastern studies Maghreb-Machrek. He has been director of the French research center in Cairo, visiting professor at Harvard, and research fellow in Beirut. He is the author of several books and articles on population issues in the Arab countries, methods of demography, minorities in the Middle East, geography, and current political economy. Mary Ann Fay Mary Ann Fay Mary Ann Fay Mary Ann Fay Mary Ann Fay is Assistant Professor of History, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Her research interests include women 330 Contributors in eighteenth-century Egypt, family and households in the early modern period, gender and space, and the representation of women in European travel writing. She is the editor of Auto/Biography and the Creation of Identity and Community in the Middle East from the Early Modern to the Modern Period (Palgrave Press, 2001). Heather Ferguson Heather Ferguson Heather Ferguson Heather Ferguson Heather Ferguson is a graduate student in history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her project—based on a combination of historical analysis of court records and the fiqh, fatawa, and adab literatures of Syria and Turkey in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries with more contemporary anthropological fieldwork—explores the significance of boundaries in both religious law and in everyday practice. Erika Friedl Erika Friedl Erika Friedl Erika Friedl Erika Friedl is the Emerita E. E. Meader Professor of Anthropology at Western Michigan University, where she taught for twenty-nine years. Her research, started in 1965, concentrates on Iran, especially on family issues in a tribal area. Her most recent book is Children of Deh Koh (1997). She lives in Michigan and continues to travel to the Middle East regularly. Akram F. Khater Akram F. Khater Akram F. Khater Akram F. Khater Akram F. Khater is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at North Carolina State University. His recent book, Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870–1920 (University of California Press, 2001) traces the lives of peasants from Mount Lebanon across the Atlantic and back, and highlights the transformations that they wrought through their voyages. He is currently working on the history of gender and religion in eighteenth century Lebanon. Annelies Moors Annelies Moors Annelies Moors Annelies Moors Annelies Moors teaches in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and is director of the Institute of the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) at the University of Amsterdam. She is at present writing about gender in Islamic family law and the body politics of photography in Palestine, and she is involved in research projects on dressing styles and wearing gold and on migrant domestic workers. Martha Mundy Martha Mundy Martha Mundy Martha Mundy Martha Mundy is Senior Lecturer in the anthropology department of the London School of Economics. She studied Greek, Latin, Arabic, and geography before completing doctoral work under the supervision of Jack Goody at the University of Cambridge. She has taught history at UCLA and anthropology at Yarmouk University, the American University of Beirut, Université Lyon 2 Lumière, and the London School of Economics. Her research has concerned kinship, agrarian sociology, and the anthropology of law and the...