Rethinking Ottoman Frontier Policies: Marriage and Citizenship in the Province of Iraq

• Published in: Arab studies journal Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 8 - 29
• Main Author: Kern, Karen M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, D.C Georgetown University 01.04.2007; Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
• Subjects: Children; Citizenship; Gender; Geopolitics; Husbands; Loyalty; Marriage; Marriage law; Men; Middle Eastern history; Middle Eastern studies; Military service; Ottoman Empire; Sunni; Territories; Women; Ottoman Empire; Iraq

The state, however, had the tendency to interfere in personal status issues where it concerned state authority and territorial hegemony, and particularly where it affected rights and obligations of citizenship, such as conscription, taxation, and matters of inheritance that, in practice, had never b...