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Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society.

Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society. book reviews 427 sources bespeaks its having been relatively understudied. Many non- Muslims must have wondered about the requirement of correct intent before prayer, fasting, and so on. Modern Muslims have argued about it, too. It is useful for someone to have shown that students of religion should make no grand claims for the importance of intent in Islamic law. Christopher Melchert University of Oxford RAPOPORT, Yossef. Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society . Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 137. ISBN 0-521-84715-X. £ 40.00; $70.00. Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society is a meticulously researched work of social history in which Yossef Rapoport highlights the complexities of gender relations within the institutions of marriage and divorce in Mamluke Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem. Rapoport sets out to explain the paradoxically high divorce rate in a society that placed a high value on marriage. He argues that actual marriages in Mamluk Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem did not correspond with the patriarchal ideal that Muslim jurists and moralists constructed and he points to dowries, the separation of property between husbands and wives, and women’s access to paid work as factors that empowered women economically and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Islamic Law and Society Brill

Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society.

Lang, Kate
Islamic Law and Society , Volume 14 (3): 427 – Jan 1, 2007
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0928-9380
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10.1163/156851907782792544
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book reviews 427 sources bespeaks its having been relatively understudied. Many non- Muslims must have wondered about the requirement of correct intent before prayer, fasting, and so on. Modern Muslims have argued about it, too. It is useful for someone to have shown that students of religion should make no grand claims for the importance of intent in Islamic law. Christopher Melchert University of Oxford RAPOPORT, Yossef. Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society . Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 137. ISBN 0-521-84715-X. £ 40.00; $70.00. Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society is a meticulously researched work of social history in which Yossef Rapoport highlights the complexities of gender relations within the institutions of marriage and divorce in Mamluke Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem. Rapoport sets out to explain the paradoxically high divorce rate in a society that placed a high value on marriage. He argues that actual marriages in Mamluk Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem did not correspond with the patriarchal ideal that Muslim jurists and moralists constructed and he points to dowries, the separation of property between husbands and wives, and women’s access to paid work as factors that empowered women economically and

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