Women in the Ottoman Empire

Download or read book Women in the Ottoman Empire written by Madeline C. Zilfi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles by 14 Middle East historians is a pathbreaking work in the history of Middle Eastern women prior to the contemporary era. The collection seeks to begin the task of reconstructing the history of (Muslim) women's experience in the middle centuries of the Ottoman era, between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth, prior to hegemonic European involvement in the region and prior to the "modernizing reforms' inaugurated by the Ottoman regime.