Barren women: religion and medicine in the medieval Middle East

Verskin, Sara

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%T Barren women: religion and medicine in the medieval Middle East
%A Verskin, Sara
%P 310
%V 2
%D 2020
%I De Gruyter
%K history of medicine infertility
%@ 2628-4286
%@ 978-3-11-059658-8
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-67674-1
%U https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=fulltext&rid=45203
%X 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. The author 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.
%C DEU
%C Berlin
%G en
%9 Monographie
%W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org
%~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info