Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society

Yossef (University of Oxford) Rapoport

Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Yossef Rapoport explores the prevalence of divorce in medieval Islamic society. In so doing, he reveals that women possessed a surprising level of economic independence which they manipulated to initiate divorce as often as men. The book makes a significant contribution to the social history of an understudied period.

ISBN-13
9780521847155
ISBN-10
052184715X
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
Publication date
2005-04-21
Pages
156
Dimensions
160x236x17
Weight
382