Gendered Limitations on Women Property Owners
Three Women of Early Modern Cairo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6147757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shauna Huffaker (University of Windsor, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 127-150 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hawwa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2078 • E-ISSN: 1569-2086 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15692086-12341234 |
| OpenAlex | W2523013026 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
Women’s rights to be independent property owners in the pre-modern Islamic world can be overemphasized. This article explores the legal frameworks and social and familial customs that limited women’s ability to act as autonomous property owners in late Mamluk and early Ottoman Egypt. Three case studies of early modern women of different socio-economic status demonstrate how these limitations come into focus only when women’s ownership of property is tracked over the long term. These case studies and supporting material are drawn from sales and waqf endowment documents held at the Egyptian National Archives and the Archives of the Ministry of Religious Endowments
Ancient history · Archaeology · Business · Christian ministry · Economic growth · Economics · Endowment · Islam · Mamluk · Political science · Property (philosophy · Property rights · Sharia · Waqf · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
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Women in Middle Eastern History
Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Family History in the Middle East
Studies in Qur'an and Hadith
Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt
Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire
Women as Patrons of Religious Architecture in Awubid Damascus
Women as Patrons of Religious Architecture in Ayyubid Damascus
Cairo's Area and Population in the Early Fifteenth Century
Kadi, Court, and Legal Procedure in 17th C. Ottoman Kayseri
The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society
Islamic legal interpretation
Royal Pilgrims
Cash and Kin Go to Court
Gender Blindness And Societal Influence In Late Ottoman Damascus
Gender and Relationality among Arab Families in Lebanon
Archaeology, Property, and Prehistory
Coptic conversion to Islam under the Baḥrī mamlūks, 692-755/1293-1354
Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies
Endowing Family
Litigants and Neighbors
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |