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Tables of Contents for The Oriental Child
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Prologue
12
2
Introduction
14
13
Initial reflections
14
1
Purpose of the study
14
1
Why a comparison of Islam and Judaism
15
2
Why child care?
17
2
A natural development
17
1
The philosophy behind ``the differences''
18
1
Fama
18
1
Lack of information?
19
3
Carelessness or harmful negligence?
19
1
Other negative factors
20
1
Tourism - the desired remedy?
21
1
Development aid
22
3
Jeopardised best practices
22
1
The Peace Corps
23
1
Small Agencies
24
1
Vocational proliferation
25
2
A not so casual reference to the UN
25
2
Methodology
27
5
General Reflections
27
2
A few remarks on scientific research
27
1
Special aspects of field research
27
2
Position of the researcher
29
2
The irreplaceability of direct personal contact
29
1
The generalisation trap
30
1
The limits of integration or integrability in limbo
30
1
A note on transliteration
31
1
Legal documents
32
54
Islam
32
16
A list of special terms
32
1
Legal texts and definitions
33
1
Historical texts
33
1
From the Koran
34
1
Name giving
34
1
Breastfeeding
35
2
Sharia
37
3
Terms and definitions
40
2
The foundling
42
2
Special phenomena
44
1
The dormant child (raqid)
44
4
Judaism
48
31
A (not alphabetical) glossary
48
5
Adoption in Israel and/or adoption in Judaism
53
1
The research environment
53
1
Historical justification
53
1
Reference to Biblical definitions
54
1
Adoption in the Bible
55
1
And Moses?
56
2
Adoption as a legal institution
58
1
Adoption and halakhah
59
1
Adoption in the Geniza
60
1
Recent and/or updated legislation
60
3
The latest amendment of the adoption law
63
1
The crusade preceding legislation
64
1
Na'amat
64
1
A not officially claimed ghost writer of the new adoption law
65
1
Rabbinical opinion
65
4
The as yet unpublished voice of a Rabbi
69
3
A note on Jewish identity
72
4
Special Phenomena
76
1
The Cohen puzzle
76
2
A final note
78
1
Adoption International
79
7
The respective Convention and an interpretation
79
7
Questionnaire
86
11
SOS Children's Villages-qira al-atfal SOS
97
8
Experience in the field:
105
134
Oman
105
18
Yemen
123
12
Lebanon
135
8
Iraq
143
6
Jordan
149
6
The only, yet prominent outsider
155
7
Egypt
156
6
Saudi Arabia
162
6
The Maghreb Members of the family of Islamic countries and/or the not so remote cousins of the oriental child-
168
20
Children and Socialisation
170
1
Three phenomena deserve special attention:
170
1
Three francophone ``sisters'' but otherwise of very different families:
171
1
Algeria
172
7
Morocco
179
4
Tunisia
183
5
Israel
188
51
Official Interviews
189
1
The Ministry - Ella Blaas speaking:
189
4
The School of Social Work
193
6
Conversations with social workers:
199
5
Visits to private institutions:
204
3
Personal interviews
207
21
The Yemeni babies
228
11
Conclusions
239
6
Epilogue
245
3
Bibliography
248