Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800 /
Scalenghe, Sara,
Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800 / Sara Scalenghe. - 1 online resource (220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization . - Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2017).
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.
9781107045309 (ebook)
HV1559.M53 / S23 2014
305.9080956
Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800 / Sara Scalenghe. - 1 online resource (220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization . - Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2017).
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.
9781107045309 (ebook)
HV1559.M53 / S23 2014
305.9080956