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Barren Women

Barren Women

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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
  • Women in Islam
  • Women in Islam Islamic family law

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110596588

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