Artikelen over de geschiedenis van vrouw en gezin in de Arabische wereld. Aandacht voor opvattingen over moslim vrouwen en Shari'a rechtbanken, huishoudens ten tijde van het Ottomaanse Rijk, Dhimmi gemeenschappen, kinderen en familierecht, echtscheidingsrecht, geweld tegen vrouwen en ethiek. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Women and citizenship in the Qur'an / door Barbara Freyer Stowasser: Women and modernization: a reevaluation / door Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot: La femme arabe: women and sexuality in France's North African Empire / door Julia Clancy-Smith: Organization of culture and the construction of the family in the modern Middle East / door Peter Gran: Women, law, and imperial justice in Ottoman Istanbul in the late seventeenth Century / door Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr: The family and gender laws in Egypt during the Ottoman period / door Abdal-Rehim Abdal-Rahman Abdal-Rehim: The divorce between Zubaida Hatun and Esseid Osman Aga: women in the eighteenth-century Sahari'a Court of Rumelia / door Svetlana Ivanova: Muslim women in court according to the Sijill of late Ottoman Jaffa and Haifa: some methodological notes / door Iris Agmon: Marriage among merchant families in seventeenth-century Cairo / door Nelly Hanna: The ties that bound: women and households in eighteenth-century Egypt / door Mary Ann Fay: Drawing boundaries and defining spaces: women and space in Ottoman Iraq / door Dina Rizk Khouri: Textual differentiation in the Damascus Sijill: religious discrimination or politics of gender? / door Najwa al-Qattan: Reflections on the personal laws of Egyptian Copts / door Mohamad Afifi: The rights of children and the responsibilities of women: women as wasis in Ottoman Aleppo 1770-1840 / door Margaret L. Meriwether: Adults and minors in Ottoman Shari'a courts and modern law / door Amira El Azhary Sonbol: Confined, battered, and repudiated women in Tunis since the eighteenth century / door Dalenda Largueche: Law and gender violence in Ottoman and modern Egypt / door Amira El Azhary Sonbol: women and society in the Tulp era, 1718-1730 / door Madeline C. Zilfi.