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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, this text challenges usual assumptions about the legal inferiority of Muslim women & their economic dependence on men.Rapoport, Yossef is the author of 'Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521045803 and ISBN 0521045800.
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