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"Off the straight path" : illicit sex, law, and community in Ottoman Aleppo
- Title
- "Off the straight path" : illicit sex, law, and community in Ottoman Aleppo / Elyse Semerdjian.
- Author
- Semerdjian, Elyse.
- Publication
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- xxxviii, 247 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-227) and index.
- Contents
- Zina in Islamic legal discourse -- Zina in Ottoman law -- People and court : policing public morality in the streets of Aleppo -- Prostitutes, soldiers, and the people : monitoring morality through customary law -- In harm's way : domestic violence and rape in the Shari'a courts of Aleppo.
- Call Number
- JBE 09-212
- ISBN
- 0815631731 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780815631736 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008043095
- OCLC
- 225870865
- Author
- Semerdjian, Elyse.
- Title
- "Off the straight path" : illicit sex, law, and community in Ottoman Aleppo / Elyse Semerdjian.
- Imprint
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-227) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 09-212