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Wives and Work Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity

Paperback • 2022 • English

Wives and Work Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity

By Marion Holmes Katz

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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 and Work, Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on wives' domestic labor that recasts th...Show more

Shariah law: Al-Hanafi School of Fiqh
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9780231206891

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Columbia University Press

Published year

2022

Language

English

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Wives and Work Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity

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Paperback

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