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This study of the historical record of property rights and equity of Muslim women is based on Islamic court documents of 15th-century Granada. The book examines women's legal entitlements to acquire property, and the social and economic significance of these rights to Granada's female population andby extensionto women in other Islamic societies.

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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 the broader topic of women’s property rights in the pre-modern Islamic world and beyond… There is much to be contemplated here. -- Olivia Remie Constable * Islamic Law and Society *

Her Day in Court

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    A Hardback by Maya Shatzmiller

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      Publisher Harvard University, Islamic Legal Studies
      Published 1 June 2007
      ISBN-13 9780674025011
      978-0674025011
      ISBN-10 0674025016
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      Systems of law: Islamic law

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This study of the historical record of property rights and equity of Muslim women is based on Islamic court documents of 15th-century Granada. The book examines women's legal entitlements to acquire property, and the social and economic significance of these rights to Granada's female population andby extensionto women in other Islamic societies.

      Trade Review
      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 the broader topic of women’s property rights in the pre-modern Islamic world and beyond… There is much to be contemplated here. -- Olivia Remie Constable * Islamic Law and Society *

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