Beshara Doumani is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900.

• Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation List of Tables and Figures 1. Introduction Beshara Doumani I. Family and Household 2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo Philippe Fargues 3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households Tomoki Okawara 4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family Mary Ann Fay II. Family, Gender, and Property 5. Women's Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations Annelies Moors 6. "Al-Mahr Zaituna": Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880-1940Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith 7. Tribal Enterprises and Marriage Issues in Twentieth-Century Iran Erika Friedl III. Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law 8. Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860 Beshara Doumani 9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine Iris Agmon 10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham Heather Ferguson IV. Family as a Discourse 11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt Kenneth M. Cuno 12. "Queen of the House?" Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the MahjarAkram F. Khater Bibliography Contributors Index SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East