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Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity

By Marion Holmes Katz

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780231556705
DOI
10.7312/katz20688
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2434681 bytes)
Pages
\320
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 01:43:55

Description

It is widely held today that classical Islamic law denies that wives have any obligation to do housework. Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on wives’ domestic labor that recasts the historical relationship between Islamic law and ethics.

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