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 | In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (Updated Edition) by Judith E. Tucker Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-520-22474-4 / 0520224744 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22474-2 / 9780520224742 In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles in society, and Tucker shows how | |