Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800

Physical, sensory, and mental impairments can influence an individual's status in society as much as the more...
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Author: Sara Scalenghe
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Language: English
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Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800 by Scalenghe, Sara

Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800

€69,68

Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800

€69,68
Author: Sara Scalenghe
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Physical, sensory, and mental impairments can influence an individual's status in society as much as the more familiar categories of gender, class, religion, race, and ethnicity. This was especially true of the early modern Arab Ottoman world, where being judged able or disabled impacted every aspect of a person's life, including performance of religious ritual, marriage, job opportunities, and the ability to buy and sell property. Sara Scalenghe's book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa, and the first to examine disability in the non-Western world before the nineteenth century. Unlike previous scholarly works that examine disability as discussed in religious texts such as the Qur'an and the Hadith, this study focuses on representations and classifications of disability and impairment across a wide range of biographical, legal, medical, and divinatory primary sources. As such, this is a socio-cultural history that seeks to explain how blindness, deafness and muteness, intersex conditions, and certain mental impairments were understood and experienced in a specific Arab-Islamic context within the geographical area that includes present-day Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine/Israel under Ottoman rule in the early modern period.

Author: Sara Scalenghe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/28/2016
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781107622791

About the Author
Scalenghe, Sara: - Sara Scalenghe is an Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University, Maryland.

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