1299–1922 CE

Ottoman Period

Ottoman qadi court registers, most closely studied for the sixteenth-century provincial court of Aintab, document women routinely appearing as plaintiffs and defendants, suing for maintenance and inheritance shares, contesting divorce terms, and managing property in their own names (Peirce, 2003) — a considerably more active legal presence than the imperial harem's popular reputation suggests (Peirce, 1993).

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Research Paper
Women in Mainstream Islam: Protection, Restriction, and the Historical Development of Religious Practice
A historical-critical review testing whether practices commonly described as Islamic requirements for women — segregation, face-veiling, travel guardianship, exclusion from mosques and public office — rest on the Qur'an itself or on later hadith, jurisprudence, dynastic custom, and regional practice.

Ottoman Period

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Women in Mainstream Islam: Protection, Restriction, and the Historical Development of Religious Practice