Barren Women : : Religion and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East.

• Superior document: Islam - Thought, Culture, and Society Series ; v.2
• Author: Verskin, Sara.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Islam - Thought, Culture, and Society Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Studying Infertility in the Medieval Islamic World: Why and How -- Part I: Infertility and Islamic Law Throughout the Life Cycle -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 Infertility and the Purposes of Marriage in Legal Theory -- 2 Law and Biology: Menstruation, Amenorrhea, and Legal Recognition of Reproductive Status -- 3 Islamic Law and the Prospects of Women Presumed to be Infertile -- Conclusion to Part I: The Intersection of Islamic Law and Women's Biology -- Part II: Arabo-Galenic Gynecology and the Treatment of Infertile Women -- Introduction to Part II -- 4 Gynecological Theory in Arabo-Galenic Medicine -- 5 Physicians, Midwives, and Female Patients -- Conclusion to Part II: Medicine and Sexism -- Part III: Healing and Religious Vulnerability -- Introduction to Part III -- 6 Religiously Classifying the Medical Marketplace of Ideas -- 7 Heterodoxy and Healthcare Among Women -- Conclusion to Part III: A Tafsīr about the First Woman's Fertility and Theological Vulnerability -- Epilogue: Infertility and the Study of Women's History -- Bibliography -- Index.