Barren Women
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Berlin/Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9783110596588
Subjects: Middle Eastern history; Islamic life & practice
Description: This book explores the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world by examining legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching. Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance and scientific theories of reproduction contoured the intellectual and social landscape infertile women had to navigate.
Notes: Open Access Unrestricted online access

H2020 European Research Council

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