Women and Property Rights in Al-Andalus and the Maghrib: Social Patterns and Legal Discourse

Abstract This essay focuses on the implementation of women's property rights in al-Andalus and the Maghrib in the period between the tenth and fifteenth centuries, as reflected in legal sources. An examination of Islamic property and family law, judicial practice, and the attitude of jurists to...

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Main Author: Shatzmiller, Maya (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 1995
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 1995, Volume: 2, Issue: 3, Pages: 219-257
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