Islamic Law on Peasant Usufruct in Ottoman Syria
Biographical note
Sabrina Joseph, Ph.D. (2005) in History, Georgetown University, is Associate Professor of International Studies and Co-Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. She has published on tenant land rights in Ottoman Syria and early modern France and on the application of law vis à vis Christians in the shariʿa courts of Ottoman Greece in journals including: Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture and Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations.
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