Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture

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By Eve Krakowski

Published May 23, 2018

Near eastern studies professor Eve Krakowski investigates girls preparing to marry and become adults in the medieval Islamic Middle East in her book Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt (Princeton University Press). She uses hundreds of everyday records to examine the roles these girls played in their societies and how families and Jewish law functioned in their world.

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