ISBN:
9781107045309
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiv, 203 pages.)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.9080956
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1800
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Geschichte
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Gesellschaft
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People with disabilities / Middle East / History
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Human body / Social aspects / Middle East
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Intersexuality / History
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Insanity (Law) / Middle East / History
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Behinderung
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Geistige Behinderung
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Körperbehinderung
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Naher Osten
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Levante
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Osmanisches Reich
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Osmanisches Reich
;
Levante
;
Körperbehinderung
;
Geistige Behinderung
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Behinderung
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Geschichte 1500-1800
Abstract:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Disability and its histories in the Arab world
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Framing this book
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Blindness
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Deafness and muteness
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Intersex
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Impairments of the mind
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Conclusion
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Epilogue
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107045309
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