Wives and Work : : Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity / / Marion Holmes Katz.
It is widely held today that classical Islamic law frees wives from any obligation to do housework. Wives’ purported exemption from domestic labor became a talking point among Muslims responding to Orientalist stereotypes of the “oppressed Muslim woman” by the late nineteenth century, and it has bee...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- ONE Domestic Labor in the Literature of Zuhd (Renunciation) and in Early Mālikī Texts
- TWO Falsafa and Fiqh in the Writings of al-Māwardī
- THREE Legal and Ethical Obligation in the Mabsūṭ of al-Sarakhsī
- FOUR Marriage Reimagined The Work of Ibn Qudāma and Ibn Taymīya
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index