Barren Women: Biology, Medicine and Religion in the Medieval Middle East

ISBN-13: 9783110681628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 324 str.

Sara Verskin

Opis

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. Sara Verskin 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.

O autorze

Sara Verskin, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA.