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Conceiving Identities - Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice (Hardcover, New)
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Conceiving Identities - Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice (Hardcover, New)
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"Conceiving Identities" explores how medieval Muslim theologians
appropriate a woman s reproductive power to construct a female
gender identity in which maternity is a central component. Through
a close analysis of seventh- through fourteenth-century exegetical
works, medical treatises, legal pronouncements, historiographies,
zoologies, and other literary materials, this study considers how
medieval Muslim scholars map the female reproductive body according
to broader, cosmological schemes to generate a woman s role as
mother. By close consideration of folk medicine and magic, this
book also reveals how medieval women contest the traditional
maternal identities imagined for them and thereby reinvent
themselves as mothers and Muslims. This innovative examination of
the discourse and practices surrounding maternity forges new ground
as it takes up the historical and epistemic construction of
medieval Muslim women s identities."
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