Family History in the Middle East

Description

Despite the constant refrain that family is the most important social institution in Middle Eastern societies, only recently has it become the focus for rethinking the modern history of the Middle East. This book introduces exciting new findings by historians, anthropologists, and historical demographers that challenge pervasive assumptions about family made in the past. Using specific case studies based on original archival research and fieldwork, the contributors focus on the interplay between micro and macro processes of change and bridge the gap between materialist and discursive frameworks of analysis. They reveal the flexibility and dynamism of family life and show the complex juxtaposition of different rhythms of time (individual time, family time, historical time). These findings interface directly with and demonstrate the need for a critical reassessment of current debates on gender, modernity, and Islam.

Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation

List of Tables and Figures

1. Introduction
Beshara Doumani

I. Family and Household

2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo
Philippe Fargues

3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households
Tomoki Okawara

4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family
Mary Ann Fay

II. Family, Gender, and Property

5. Women's Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations
Annelies Moors

6. "Al-Mahr Zaituna": Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880-1940
Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith

7. Tribal Enterprises and Marriage Issues in Twentieth-Century Iran
Erika Friedl

III. Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law

8. Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860
Beshara Doumani

9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine
Iris Agmon

10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham
Heather Ferguson

IV. Family as a Discourse

11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt
Kenneth M. Cuno

12. "Queen of the House?" Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar
Akram F. Khater

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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Sujets

• History of the Middle East
• Middle East
• Anthropology

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780791487075
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Family History in the Middle East

SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East Donald Quataert, Editor

Family History in the Middle East

Household, Property, and Gender

Edited by Beshara Doumani

State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Family history in the Middle East: Household, property, and gender / Beshara Doumani, editor. p. cm. — (SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5679-X (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5680-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Family—Middle East—History. 2. Domestic relations (Islamic law)—Middle East—History. 3. Middle East—Social conditions. 4. Middle East—History I. Doumani, Beshara, 1957 – II. Series.

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Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation

List of Tables and Figures

1. Introduction Beshara Doumani

I.Family and Household 2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo Philippe Fargues 3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households Tomoki Okawara 4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family Mary Ann Fay

II.Family, Gender, and Property 5. Women’s Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations Annelies Moors 6. “Al-Mahr Zaituna”: Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880–1940 Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith

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7. Tribal Enterprises and Marriage Issues in Twentieth-Century Iran Erika Friedl

III. Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law 8. Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700–1860 Beshara Doumani 9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth- Century Palestine Iris Agmon 10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham Heather Ferguson

IV. Family as a Discourse 11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt Kenneth M. Cuno 12. “Queen of the House?” Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in theMahjar Akram F. Khater

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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Turkish and Arabic terms are translated according to the system of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Wherever possible, English terms were used in order to make the text more accessible. All diacriti- cal marks for Arabic terms were omitted except for theayn (˜) and hamza (˘), and these were used only when they occur in the middle of the word or name. Below is a guide for the pronunciation of Turk- ish words.

Guide to Pronounciation of Turkish Words C, c = “j” as in juice Ç, ç = “ch” as in cheek ˘ G, ¬ = soft “g”, hardly pronounced ı = without a dot, pronounced like the first syllable of “earnest” I , i = with a dot, between “in” and “eel” Ö, ö = as in the umlaut ö in German Î, ƒ = as in “sheet” Ü, ü = as in the umlat ü in German ˆ = used to denote a lengthened vowel (a, i, and u) or to palatize a preceeding g, k, or l After Cornell H. Fleischer,Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli (1541–1600).1986, xvi. Princeton,

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