Women of the Jordan: Islam, Labor, and the Law (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) - Hardcover

Sonbol, Amira El-Azhary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815629648 ISBN 13: 9780815629641

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2003

Synopsis

An incisive study of the past, present, and future of Jordanian and Palestinian women, women and issues of employment, education, human rights, Islamic law, and legal practice.

About this title

About the Author:

Amira EI-Azhary Sonbol is associate professor of Islamic history, law, and society at Georgetown University. She is the author of The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism, and The Creation of a Medical Profession in Egypt, 1800-1922, and is editor of Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History, all published by Syracuse University Press.

Review:

Amira Sonbol's book is the best of its kind. She sets our to describe a major problem and then gives solutions to that problem within the ethos and parameters of chat society. . . . A most important work.--Afaf Marsot, author of Women and Men in Eighteenth-Century Egypt

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0815629648
• ISBN 13: 9780815629641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314