Her Day in Court Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada

Name: Her Day in Court Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada
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ISBN: 9780674025011

ISBN-10: 0674025016

ISBN-13: 9780674025011

Edition: 2007

Authors: Maya Shatzmiller

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This book is a study of the historical record of Muslim women's property rights and equity. Based on Islamic court documents of fifteenth-century Granada--documents that show a high degree of women's involvement--the book examines women's legal entitlements to acquire property as well as the social and economic significance of these rights to Granada's female population and, by extension, to women in other Islamic societies. The microhistory of women's property rights is placed in a comparative historical, social, and economic context and is examined using a theoretical framework that suggests how this book's conclusions might coexist with the Islamic feminist discourse on the law as a…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 6/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 230
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

?Maya Shatzmiller is Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario.




Rights and their acquisition



The Sadaq



The inter vivos gift



Inheritance



Delayed acquisition



Body and soul



The body as property



Property rights in conversion



Economy and class



Labour and wages



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