Barren women religion and medicine in the medieval Middle East

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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Main Author: Verskin, Sara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin de Gruyter 2020
Series:Islam -- thought culture, and society
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