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High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates of divorce against the Islamic ideal of marriage,Yossef Rapoport radically challenges usual assumptions about the legal inferiority of Muslim women and their economic dependence on men. He argues that marriages in late medieval Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem had little in common with the patriarchal models advocated by jurists and moralists. The transmission of dowries, women's access to waged labour, and the strict separation of property between spouses made divorce easy and normative, initiated by wives as often as by their husbands. This carefully researched work of social history is interwoven with intimate accounts of individual medieval lives, making for a truly compelling read. It will be of interest to scholars of all disciplines concerned with the history of women and gender in Islam.

Marriage --- -Marriage --- -Divorce --- -Marriage (Islamic law) --- Divorce (Islamic law) --- 392.4/.5 "04/14" --- 297 "04/14" --- 392.4/.5 "04/14" Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Middeleeuwen --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Middeleeuwen --- Islamic law --- Marriage law (Islamic law) --- Broken homes --- Divorced people --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- History --- -History --- -Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Middeleeuwen --- Islam. Mohammedanisme--Middeleeuwen --- Islamic countries --- -Muslim countries --- Social conditions. --- Divorce (Islamic law). --- Marriage (Islamic law). --- Divorce --- Marriage (Islamic law) --- Muslim countries --- Islam --- History of the law --- anno 500-1499 --- Egypt --- Cairo (Egypt) --- To 1500 --- Jerusalem --- Syria --- Damascus (Syria) --- Arts and Humanities

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Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Muslims were uniquely placed to explore the edges of the inhabited world and their maps stretched from Isfahan to Palermo, from Istanbul to Cairo and Aden. Over a similar period, Muslim artists developed distinctive styles, often based on geometrical patterns and calligraphy. Map-makers, including al-Khwarazmi and al-Idrisi, combined novel cartographical techniques with art, science and geographical knowledge. The results could be aesthetically stunning and mathematically sophisticated, politically charged as well as a celebration of human diversity. 0'Islamic Maps' examines Islamic visual interpretations of the world in their historical context, through the lives of the map-makers themselves. What was the purpose of their maps, what choices did they make and what was the argument they were trying to convey? Lavishly illustrated with stunning manuscripts, beautiful instruments and Qibla charts, this book shows how maps constructed by Muslim map-makers capture the many dimensions of Islamic civilisation, providing a window into the worldviews of Islamic societies.

912:297 --- 912:297 Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Islam. Mohammedanisme --- 912:297 Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Cartography --- Cartographie --- Islamic civilization. --- Civilisation islamique --- History. --- Histoire. --- Qurʼan --- Coran --- Geography. --- Géographie --- Géographie. --- Book history --- Geodesy. Cartography --- cartography [discipline] --- Géographie.

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Richly annotated and with a detailed introduction, this volume offers the first academic edition and translation of a first-hand account of the Egyptian countryside, offering a key insight into the rural economy of medieval Islam.0Medieval Islamic society was overwhelmingly a society of peasants, and the achievements of Islamic civilization depended, first and foremost, on agricultural production. Yet the history of the medieval Islamic countryside has been neglected or marginalized. Basic questions such as the social and religious identities of village communities, or the relationship of the peasant to the state, are either ignored or discussed from a normative point of view.0This volume addresses this lacuna in our understanding of medieval Islam by presenting a first-hand account of the Egyptian countryside. Dating from the middle of the thirteenth century, Abu ?Uthman al-Nabulusi?s Villages of the Fayyum is as close as we get to the tax registers of any rural province. Not unlike the Domesday Book of medieval England, al-Nabulusi?s work provides a wealth of detail for each village which far surpasses any other source for the rural economy of medieval Islam. It is a unique, comprehensive snap-shot of one rural society at one, significant, point in its history, and an insight into the way of life of the majority of the population in the medieval Islamic world. Richly annotated and with a detailed introduction, this volume offers the first academic edition of this work and the first translation into a European language.

Taxation --- History --- Fayyūm (Egypt) --- Antiquities. --- Rural conditions --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, Arabic --- Arabic language --- Translations into English. --- Social life and customs. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Sources.

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Acquired by the Bodleian Library in 2002, the Book of Curiosities is now recognized as one of the most important discoveries in the history of cartography in recent decades. This eleventh-century Arabic treatise, composed in Egypt under the Fatimid caliphs, is a detailed account of the heavens and the Earth, illustrated by an unparalleled series of maps and astronomical diagrams. With topics ranging from comets to the island of Sicily, from lunar mansions to the sources of the Nile, it represents the extent of geographical, astronomical and astrological knowledge of the time. This authoritative edition and translation, accompanied by a colour facsimile reproduction, opens a unique window onto the worldview of medieval Islam. An extensive glossary of star-names and seven indices, on birds, animals and other items have been added for easy reference.

Cosmography --- Geography --- Cartography --- Astronomy, Medieval. --- Cosmographie --- Géographie --- Cartographie --- Astronomie médiévale --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Ouvrages jusqu'à 1800 --- Earth (Planet) --- Terre --- Géographie --- Astronomie médiévale --- Ouvrages jusqu'à 1800 --- Medieval astronomy --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- Earth

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Al-Bayān wa'l-iʿrāb ʿammā fī arḍ Miṣr min al-aʿrāb is an influential treatise on the Arab and Berber groups that inhabited the Egyptian countryside in the late medieval period. The work brings together al-Maqrīzī's life-long preoccupation with the history of Egypt and his parallel interest in the history of the Arabs, pitting the lineage-based ideology of Arab rebels against the Mamluk elite of manumitted slaves. Over the past century, the Bayān has been repeatedly deployed in public debates about the Arab identity of Egypt. This book offers a critical study of the treatise in its fifteenth century context, an academic edition, and a first translation into English.

Arabs --- Ethnology --- History. --- History.