Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231206891ISBN-10:231206895UPC:9780231206891Book Category:Religion, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Islam, Islamic Studies, EthicsSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCZFF09DSG
Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity
It is widely held today that classical Islamic law frees wives from any obligation to do housework. Wives' purported exemption from domestic labor became a talking point among Muslims responding to Orientalist stereotypes of the "oppressed Muslim woman" by the late nineteenth century, and it has been a prominent motif in writings by Muslim feminists in the United States since the 1980s.
In Wives...Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231206891ISBN-10:231206895UPC:9780231206891Book Category:Religion, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Islam, Islamic Studies, EthicsSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCZFF09DSG
Marion Holmes Katz is a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. Her books include The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad: Devotional Piety in Sunni Islam (2007), Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice (2013), and Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice (Columbia, 2014).
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