description: This book is the fruit of the first comprehensive research, carried out within the framework of Islamic studies, on childhood in medieval Muslim society. It deals with the images of children, with adults' attitudes toward them, and with concepts of childhood as reflected in legal, theological, philosophical, ethical and medical writings as well as works of belles lettres. The studies included in this volume are based on the historical-philological methodology enriched by a comparative approach toward the subject. Thus, findings of social historians, particularly historians of family and childhood in societies outside the domain of Islamic civilization as well as those of anthropologists working on Middle Eastern societies all have been taken into account while analyzing the medieval Arabic sources.
language: English
title: Children of Islam: Concepts of Childhood in Medieval Muslim Society
titlecomplete: Children of Islam: Concepts of Childhood in Medieval Muslim Society
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publisher: Palgrave Macmillan