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Family and Court - Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine (Hardcover)
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Family and Court - Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine (Hardcover)
Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
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This book challenges prevailing assumptions about family, courts of
law, and the nature of modernity in Muslim societies against the
backdrop of Haifa and Jaffa during ""the long nineteenth century"".
The popular image of the family and the court of law in Muslim
societies is one of traditional, unchanging social frameworks. Iris
Agmon suggests an entirely different view, grounded in a detailed
study of nineteenth-century Ottoman court records from the
flourishing Palestinian port cities of Haifa and Jaffa. She depicts
the Sharia Muslim court of law as a dynamic institution, capable of
adapting to rapid and profound social changes - indeed, of playing
an active role in generating these changes. Court and family
interact and transform themselves, each other, and the society of
which they form part. Agmon's book is a significant contribution to
scholarship on both family history and legal culture in the social
history of the Middle East.
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