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Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800 (Hardcover)
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Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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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.
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