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Yossef Rapoport explores the prevalence of divorce in medieval Islamic society. In so doing, he reveals that women possessed a surprising level of economic independence which they manipulated to initiate divorce as often as men. The book makes a significant contribution to the social history of an understudied period.Rapoport, Yossef is the author of 'Marriage, Money And Divorce In Medieval Islamic Society', published 2005 under ISBN 9780521847155 and ISBN 052184715X.
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