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

Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching, Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions; legal theo...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Islam - Thought, Culture, and Society
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 310 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Studying Infertility in the Medieval Islamic World: Why and How
  • 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
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 4 Gynecological Theory in Arabo-Galenic Medicine
  • 5 Physicians, Midwives, and Female Patients
  • Conclusion to Part II: Medicine and Sexism
  • 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