Family history in the Middle East: household, property, and gender

Family History in the Middle East......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Note on Transliteration and Pronounciation......Page 10
List of Tables and Figures......Page 12
1. Introduction by Beshara Doumani......Page 14
I. Family and Household......Page 34
2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo by Philippe Fargues......Page 36
3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households by Tomoki Okawara......Page 64
4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family by Mary Ann Fay......Page 90
II: Family, Gender, and Property......Page 112
5. Women’s Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations by Annelies Moors......Page 114
6. “Al-Mahr Zaituna”: Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880–1940 by Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith......Page 132
7. Tribal Enterprises and Marriage Issues in Twentieth-Century Iran......Page 164
III: Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law......Page 184
8. Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860......Page 186
9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine by Iris Agmon......Page 214
10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham by Heather Ferguson......Page 242
IV: Family as a Discourse......Page 258
11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt by Kenneth M. Cuno......Page 260
12. “Queen of the House?” Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar by Akram F. Khater......Page 284
Bibliography......Page 314
Contributors......Page 342
B......Page 346
D......Page 347
G......Page 348
I......Page 349
M......Page 350
P......Page 351
S......Page 352
Z......Page 353
SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East......Page 354