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The Kin Who Count : Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840 / Margaret L. Meriwether.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780292757134
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.85/095691/3 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ663.7.Z9 A776 1999
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- ONE. Family and Lineage: Aleppo's Notables -- TWO. Family and Household -- THREE. Marriage Bonds and Marriage Partners -- FOUR. Inheritance and Family Structure -- FIVE. Endowment and Family Structure -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX ONE. The Notable Families of Aleppo -- APPENDIX TWO. Selected Genealogies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently answers. Who lived together in the household? Who married whom and for how long? Who got a piece of the patrimonial pie? These are the questions that Margaret Meriwether investigates in this groundbreaking study of family life among the upper classes of the Ottoman Empire in the pre-modern and early modern period. Meriwether recreates Aleppo family life over time from records kept by the Islamic religious courts that held jurisdiction over all matters of family law and property transactions. From this research, she asserts that the stereotype of the large, patriarchal patrilineal family rarely existed in reality. Instead, Aleppo's notables organized their families in a great diversity of ways, despite the fact that they were all members of the same social class with widely shared cultural values, acting under the same system of family law. She concludes that this had important implications for gender relations and demonstrates that it gave women more authority and greater autonomy than is usually acknowledged.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- ONE. Family and Lineage: Aleppo's Notables -- TWO. Family and Household -- THREE. Marriage Bonds and Marriage Partners -- FOUR. Inheritance and Family Structure -- FIVE. Endowment and Family Structure -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX ONE. The Notable Families of Aleppo -- APPENDIX TWO. Selected Genealogies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently answers. Who lived together in the household? Who married whom and for how long? Who got a piece of the patrimonial pie? These are the questions that Margaret Meriwether investigates in this groundbreaking study of family life among the upper classes of the Ottoman Empire in the pre-modern and early modern period. Meriwether recreates Aleppo family life over time from records kept by the Islamic religious courts that held jurisdiction over all matters of family law and property transactions. From this research, she asserts that the stereotype of the large, patriarchal patrilineal family rarely existed in reality. Instead, Aleppo's notables organized their families in a great diversity of ways, despite the fact that they were all members of the same social class with widely shared cultural values, acting under the same system of family law. She concludes that this had important implications for gender relations and demonstrates that it gave women more authority and greater autonomy than is usually acknowledged.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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