Disability in the Arab Ottoman World, 1500-1800
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781107044791
Subjects: People with disabilities; Human body, social aspects; Intersexuality; Insanity (law); Law, middle east
Description: This text explores the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule. The author seeks to explain how blindness, deafness and muteness, intersex conditions, and certain mental impairments were understood and experienced in a specific Arab-Islamic context.