Barren Women Religion and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East
Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching, Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions; legal theo...
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2020
Berlin ; Boston : [2020] |
| Series: | Islam - Thought, Culture, and Society
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009437751206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Studying Infertility in the Medieval Islamic World: Why and How
- Introduction to Part I
- 1 Infertility and the Purposes of Marriage in Legal Theory
- 2 Law and Biology: Menstruation, Amenorrhea, and Legal Recognition of Reproductive Status
- 3 Islamic Law and the Prospects of Women Presumed to be Infertile
- Conclusion to Part I: The Intersection of Islamic Law and Women’s Biology
- Introduction to Part II
- 4 Gynecological Theory in Arabo-Galenic Medicine
- 5 Physicians, Midwives, and Female Patients
- Conclusion to Part II: Medicine and Sexism
- Introduction to Part III
- 6 Religiously Classifying the Medical Marketplace of Ideas
- 7 Heterodoxy and Healthcare Among Women
- Conclusion to Part III: A Tafsīr about the First Woman’s Fertility and Theological Vulnerability
- Epilogue: Infertility and the Study of Women’s History
- Bibliography
- Index
