This study of the early development of Egypt's medical profession confronts the Eurocentric view of the history of modern medicine and illustrates the complexities of modernization in a colonial setting. It demonstrates the importance of cultural continuity to any process of change.

The Creation of a Medical Profession in Egypt, 1800-1922 (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)

History

Sonbol, Amira El-Azhary

Middle East

Syracuse University Press

This study of modern Egypt aims to open the debate regarding new terms and methods for understanding the Middle East and Islamic societies. Sonbol shows continuity in the division of Egyptian society into two groups: the Khassa which tried to impose a hegemonic culture, and the opposing Amma.

The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms)

Americas

Amira El-Azhary Sonbol

Fernea, Robert A.

Women of the Jordan: Islam, Labor, and the Law (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)

In the first book to address the dilemma faced by Jordanian women in the workforce, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol delineates the constraints chat exist in a number of legal practices, namely penal codes chat permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work. Leniency in honor crimes and early marriage and motherhood for girls are other factors that extend the patriarchal power throughout a woman's life, and ultimately deny her full legal competency. Significantly, Sonbol notes that society's accepting as "Islamic" the legal constraints that control women's work constitutes a major barrier to any effort to change them, even though historically the Islamic sharia actually encourages women's work, and despite the fact that Muslim women have contributed materially to their society's economy. The author covers new ground as she effectively illustrates how Jordanian laws governing gender, family, and work combine with laws and legal philosophies derived from tribal, traditional, Islamic, and modern laws to form a strict patriarchal structure.

In the first book to address the dilemma faced by Jordanian women in the workforce, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol delineates the constraints chat exist in a number of legal practices, namely penal codes chat permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work. Leniency in honor crimes and early marriage and motherhood for girls are other factors that extend the patriarchal power throughout a woman's life, and ultimately deny her full legal competency. Significantly, Sonbol notes that society's accepting as "Islamic" the legal constraints that control women's work constitutes a major barrier to any effort to change them, even though historically the Islamic sharia actually encourages women's work, and despite the fact that Muslim women have contributed materially to their society's economy. The author covers new ground as she effectively illustrates how Jordanian laws governing gender, family, and work combine with laws and legal philosophies derived from tribal, traditional, Islamic, and modern laws to form a strict patriarchal structure.

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The Creation of a Medical Profession in Egypt, 1800-1922 (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)

The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms)

The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms)

Women of the Jordan: Islam, Labor, and the Law (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)

Women of the Jordan: Islam, Labor, and the Law (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)