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
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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