TY  - BOOK
AU  - Semerdjian,Elyse
TI  - "Off the straight path": illicit sex, law, and community in Ottoman Aleppo 
T2  - Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
SN  - 0815631731 (hbk. : alk. paper)
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Syracuse, N.Y.
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - Adultery (Islamic law)
KW  - Fornication (Islamic law)
KW  - Rape (Islamic law)
KW  - Domestic relations (Islamic law)
KW  - Customary law (Islamic law)
KW  - Syria
KW  - Aleppo
KW  - Punishment (Islamic law)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-227) and index; Zina in Islamic legal discourse -- Zina in Ottoman law -- People and court : policing public morality in the streets of Aleppo -- Prostitutes, soldiers, and the people : monitoring morality through customary law -- In harm's way : domestic violence and rape in the Shari'a courts of Aleppo
ER  -