النزاعات الزوجية و أشكال العنف الممارس ضد المرأة بمدينة قسنطينة أواخر الفترة العثمانية

الملخص EN

The subject of matrimonial disputes and different forms of domestic violence is one of the social issues that has been explored and continues to interest researchers in sociology, science of law, legal sciences, sharia sciences and other research fields.

We have chosen to study one aspect of this subject; by focusing on matrimonial disputes and sorts of violence against women; in the city of Constantine during the late Ottoman period, while noting that the study sample was mostly the wife.

Thus, this socio-historical study aimed at addressing the fundamental problematic of monitoring different sorts of matrimonial disputes and forms of violence against wives; registered in the the Maliki and Hanafi Shariah court's records of Constantine during the late Ottoman period.

The study revealed that the multiple causes of matrimonial disputes, as well as their persistence, sometimes until after divorce, together with the violence against women; therefore, it is obvious that there is a diversity of violence manifestations against her by her husband, and the records' contracts show the importance of the justice authority and its role in dealing with and adjudicating such cases.