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In 1910, when Khedive Abbas II married a second wife
surreptitiously, the contrast with his openly polygamous
grandfather, Ismail, whose multiple wives and concubines signified
his grandeur and masculinity, could not have been greater. That
contrast reflected the spread of new ideals of family life that
accompanied the development of Egypt's modern marriage system.
Modernizing Marriage explores the evolution of marriage and marital
relations, shedding new light on the social and cultural history of
Egypt. Family is central to modern Egyptian history. Family in the
ruling court did the "political work," and, indeed, the modern
state began as a household government in which members of the
ruler's household seved in the military and civil service. Cuno
discusses political and sociodemographic changes that affected
marriage and family life and the production of a family ideology by
modernist intellectuals, who identified the family as a site
crucial to social improvement, and for whom the reform and
codification of Muslim family law was a principal aim. Throughout
Modernizing Marriage, Cuno examines Egyptian family history in a
comparative and transnational context, addressing issues of
colonial modernity and colonial knowledge, Islamic law and legal
reform, social history, and the history of women and gender.
In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were
forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern
Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about
them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of
elite households, who were mostly white, and on abolitionist
efforts to end the slave trade, and most have relied heavily on
western language sources. In the past forty years new sources have
become available, ranging from Egyptian religious and civil court
and police records to rediscovered archives and accounts in western
archives and libraries. Along with new developments in the study of
African slavery these sources provide a perspective on the lives of
non-elite trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth century Egypt and
beyond. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves
and freed men and women in Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman
Mediterranean. Contributors: Kenneth M. Cuno, Y. Hakan Erdem,
Michael Ferguson, Emad Ahmad Helal Shams al-Din, Liat Kozma, George
Michael La Rue, Ahmad A. Sikainga, Eve M. Troutt Powell, and
Terence Walz.
In 1910, when Khedive Abbas II married a second wife
surreptitiously, the contrast with his openly polygamous
grandfather, Ismail, whose multiple wives and concubines signified
his grandeur and masculinity, could not have been greater. That
contrast reflected the spread of new ideals of family life that
accompanied the development of Egypt's modern marriage system.
Modernizing Marriage explores the evolution of marriage and marital
relations, shedding new light on the social and cultural history of
Egypt. Family is central to modern Egyptian history and in the
ruling court did the ""political work."" Indeed, the modern state
began as a household government in which members of the ruler's
household served in the military and civil service. Cuno discusses
political and sociodemographic changes that affected marriage and
family life and the production of a family ideology by modernist
intellectuals, who identified the family as a site crucial to
social improvement, and for whom the reform and codification of
Muslim family law was a principal aim. Throughout Modernizing
Marriage, Cuno examines Egyptian family history in a comparative
and transnational context, addressing issues of colonial modernity
and colonial knowledge, Islamic law and legal reform, social
history, and the history of women and gender.
A study of peasant land-owning and its attendant social and
economic changes during the making of modern Egypt. This digital
edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http:
//www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title
A study of peasant land-owning and its attendant social and
economic changes during the making of modern Egypt. This digital
edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http:
//www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title
The essays in this collection examine issues of gender, family, and
law in the Middle East and South Asia. In particular, the authors
address the impact of colonialism on law, family, and gender
relations; the role of religious politics in writing family law and
the implications for gender relations; and, the tension between
international standards emerging from UN conferences and
conventions and various nationalist projects. Employing the frame
of globalization, the authors highlight how local and global forces
interact and influence the experience and actions of people who
engage with the law. By virtue of a 'south-south' comparison of two
quite similar and culturally linked regions, contributors avoid
positing 'the West' as a modern telos. Drawing upon the fields of
anthropology, history, sociology, and law, this volume offers a
wide-ranging exploration of the complicated history of
jurisprudence with regard to family and gender.
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