"Do Not Enter Houses Other Than Your Own": the Evolution of the Notion of a Private Domestic Sphere in Early Sunnī Islamic Thought

Abstract This article is the first comprehensive study of the conceptions of domestic privacy articulated by early sunnī Muslim jurists. Focusing on exegetical and legal sources composed between the seventh and thirteenth centuries CE, I argue, first, that Muslim scholars regarded privacy as a legal...

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Main Author: Alshech, Eli (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2004
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 2004, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 291-332
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