Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period

Elizabeth Brownson

Syracuse University Press, 2019

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Sheds light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari‘a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Brownson’s archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women’s position in the courts, demonstrating Muslim women’s active participation in their legal affairs.

ISBN-13
9780815636465
ISBN-10
0815636466
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Year
2019
Publication date
2019-07-01
Pages
240
Dimensions
255x613x15
Weight
312