Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on Transliteration and Pronounciation ix
4. List of Tables and Figures xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Family and Household
7. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo 23
8. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households 51
9. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-Style Nuclear Family 77
10. Family, Gender, and Property
11. Women’s Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations 101
12. “Al-Mahr Zaituna”: Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880–1940 119
13. Tribal Enterprises and Marriage Issues in Twentieth -Century Iran 151
14. Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law
15. Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700–1860 173
16. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine 201
17. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus Al-Sham 229
18. Family as a Discourse
19. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt 247
20. “Queen of the House?” Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar 271
21. Bibliography 301
22. Contributors 329
23. Index 333
24. SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East 341