"Off the straight path"
"Off the straight path": illicit sex, law, and community in Ottoman Aleppo Elyse Semerdjian
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2008.
ISBN: 0815631731
DDC: 345.56910253
Edition: (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-227) and index.
Zina in Islamic legal discourse -- Zina in Ottoman law -- People and
court: policing public morality in the streets of Aleppo --
Prostitutes, soldiers, and the people: monitoring morality through
customary law -- In harm's way: domestic violence and rape in the
Shari'a courts of Aleppo.
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