היסטוריה של המשפחה, נשים ומיגדר, משפט וחברה במזה"ת המודרני והקדם מודרני, ארץ ישראל-פלסטין בשלהי התקופה העוסמאנית

Selected Publications

Islamic Law and Society 15 (theme issue, no. 1, 2008), guest co-editor

Family and Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2006. http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2005-catalog/family-court.html

"Recording Procedures and Legal Culture in the Late Ottoman Shari'a Court of Jaffa," Islamic Law and Society 11 (3, November 2004): 333-377

"Women's History and Ottoman Sharia Court Records: Shifting Perspectives in Social History," HAWWA 2 (2, July 2004): 172-209

"Social Biography of a Late Ottoman Shari'a Judge," New Perspectives on Turkey 30 (Spring 2004): 83-113

"Text, Court, and Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Palestine," in Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender, edited by Beshara Doumani, pp. 201-228. New York: SUNY Press, 2003

"Women, Class and Gender: Muslim Jaffa and Haifa at the Turn of the 20th Century," International Journal of Middle East Studies 30, (4, 1998): 477-500

"Muslim Women in Court according to the Sijill of Late Ottoman Jaffa and Haifa: Some Methodological Notes," in Women, Family and Divorce Laws in Islamic Society, edited by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, pp. 126-140. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1996

Iris Agmon

Ph.D. 1995, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail iragmon@bgu.ac.il

Phone 972-8-6472.546

Fax 972-8-6472.952

Fields of Interest

Social History of the Ottoman Middle East, with special interest in late Ottoman and early Mandate Palestine, Sociolegal History, Family History, History of Women and Gender, and Anthropological History.

Selected Courses:

History, Historiography, and Middle East Studies (BA honor class)

Society, Culture, and History in the Middle East (BA honor class)

Social History and Legal Sources (BA seminar, "Law & Society" program)

Family History in the Middle East (MA seminar)