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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.
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Keywords
- Asian history
- History
- history of medicine
- history of medicine infertility
- Humanities
- Infertility
- Islam
- Islamic family law
- Islamic life & practice
- Middle Eastern History
- Regional & national history
- Religion & beliefs
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam::QRPP Islamic life and practice
- Women in Islam
- Women in Islam Islamic family law
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DOI: 10.1515/9783110596588Editions