TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scalenghe,Sara
TI  - Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800
T2  - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
SN  - 9781107045309 (ebook)
AV  - HV1559.M53 S23 2014
U1  - 305.9080956 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Intersexuality
KW  - Insanity (Law)
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Disability and its histories in the Arab world --; Framing this book --; Blindness --; Deafness and muteness --; Intersex --; Impairments of the mind --; Conclusion --; Epilogue
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107045309
ER  -