High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates of divorce against the Islamic ideal of marriage, Yossef Rapoport radically challenges usual assumptions about the legal inferiority of Muslim women and their economic dependence on men. He argues that marriages in late medieval Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem had little in common with the patriarchal models advocated by jurists and moralists. The transmission of dowries, women's access to waged labour, and the strict separation of property...

High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates of divorce against the Islamic ideal of marriage, Yossef Rapoport radically challenges usual assumptions about the legal inferiority of Muslim women and their economic dependence on men. He argues that marriages in late medieval Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem had little in common with the patriarchal models advocated by jurists and moralists. The transmission of dowries, women's access to waged labour, and the strict separation of property...

Sind das überhaupt Karten? Oder eher Kunst? Vom Bagdad des 9. Jahrhunderts bis zum Iran des 19. Jahrhunderts erzählt Rapoport die Geschichte der islamischen Kartographie und ihrer bedeutendsten Kartenschöpfer. Im Spiegel außergewöhnlicher Karten von berühmt bis gänzlich unbekannt gewinnen wir Einblicke in die Weltbilder islamischer Gesellschaften.