Books in the Islamic Mediterranean series

Conventional wisdom qualifies the Mediterranean Muslim woman as a passive person subjected to the tyranny and misogyny of her religion, society, and male relatives. These studies bear witness to the fact that individual women play pivotal roles in private domains of society and in the public realm.

Arising from a critique of a liberal understanding of property relation as one between a person and a "thing", with state intervention being responsible for an absence of private property in non-European contexts, this study contests these assumptions in a European and non-European context.