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Article dans une revue Journal of Semitic Studies Année : 2023

The Silence of the Bride: A Fatimid marriage contract on silk

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Marriage contracts and divorce deeds are of particular importance for historians, as they provide clues about both social practices and gender relations. In this article, we offer an edition of a noteworthy document from Dār al-āthār al-islāmiyya in Kuwait, which, beyond its remarkable aesthetic quality, offers a testimony to marriage and divorce practices in a bourgeois milieu of the Egyptian capital during the late Fatimid period. More than a micro-history, this document adds a new piece to the picture of matrimonial dynamics in medieval Egypt, which were often more subtle than previously understood. Patriarchal authority did not prevent a father from deploying all sorts of strategies to protect his daughter in marriage and guarantee her a certain amount of autonomy. In accordance with some jurists’ recommendations, which were based on a Prophetic hadith, the father did not marry off his daughter without first obtaining her tacit permission. Finally, the document preserves the memory of a marital crisis in the seventh year of marriage, during which the husband repudiated his wife before rapidly taking her back.

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halshs-04274232, version 1 (07-11-2023)

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Mathieu Tillier, Naïm Vanthieghem, Reem Alrudainy. The Silence of the Bride: A Fatimid marriage contract on silk. Journal of Semitic Studies, In press, ⟨10.1093/jss/fgad018⟩. ⟨halshs-04274232⟩
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