House of Obedience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12796399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nahda Shehada (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-49 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Middle East Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1552-5864 • E-ISSN: 1558-9579 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/mew.2009.5.1.24 |
| OpenAlex | W2025797953 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 20 |
Based on 14 months of fieldwork, this paper examines the influence of social norms, individual agency, and historical contingency on the practice of House of Obedience (bayt al-ta‘a) in the shari‘a courts of the Gaza Strip. It argues that the text of Islamic family law is only one dimension in the administration of House of Obedience. Aspects concerning the wider sociopolitical context are crucial, notably the preeminence of the notion of family honor (sharaf), the mutually constitutive relation between the shari‘a court and the community, and the specificities of court cases. As an ideological construct, the law does not necessarily correspond to a social milieu full of inconsistencies, oppositions, contradictions, and tensions. Thus, the practice of law has always been characterized by pluralism, flexibility, and a degree of ambiguity, whereas the text remains characterized by rigidity, restriction, stability, and in some aspects, superficial clarity
Ambiguity · Contingency · Epistemology · Ideology · Obedience · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy
Islam, Gender, and Social Change
The Gaza Strip
The anthropology of justice
Law as Process
On Judicial Review in Islamic Law
Beyond the Code
Women, Islam and the State
Family History in the Middle East
Gender Issues and Contemporary Quran Interpretation
Breaking the Interpretive Monopoly
Women, Islam and the State
Women, Property and Islam
A Review of the Anthropological Literature in English on the Palestinian "Ḥamūla" and the Status of Women
Nušuz Between Medieval and Contemporary Islamic Law
On Judicial Review in Islamic Law
Women and Islamic Law in a Non-Muslim State
Muslim" Women and "Western" Feminists
Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran
What Is Islamic Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2016 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |