Her Day in Court

98 Book Reviews / Islamic Law and Society 16 (2009) 95-111 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/156851908X413775 Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada . By Maya Shatzmiller. Harvard Series in Islamic Law, 4. Cambridge, MA: Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 277. ISBN: 0-674-02501-1. $28.95. Despite its subtitle, Maya Shatzmiller’s book reaches far beyond the territorial and chronological confines of 15th-century Granada. Her focus is not so much on Granada itself as on using the example of this region as an entry point for examination of

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