Title: Disability in the Arab Ottoman World, 1500-1800
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.
Subjects: People with disabilities, Human body, social aspects, Intersexuality, Insanity (law), Law, middle east, History, Human body, Disabled Persons, Disorders of Sex Development, History, 16th Century, History, 17th Century, History, 18th Century, Arab World, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Discrimination & Race Relations, Minority Studies, Social aspects, Funktionsnedsättningar, Historia, Personer med funktionsnedsättning