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In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic
legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender
roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine,
Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles
in society, and Tucker shows how fatwas, or legal opinions, greatly
influenced these roles. She challenges prevailing views on Islam
and gender, revealing Islamic law to have been more fluid and
flexible than previously thought. Although the legal system had a
consistent patriarchal orientation, it was modulated by
sensitivities to the practical needs of women, men, and children.
In her comprehensive overview of a field long neglected by
scholars, Tucker deepens our understanding of how societies,
including our own, construct gender roles.
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