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Barren Women Biology, Medicine and Religion in the Medieval Middle East (Volume 2).

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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Main Author:	Verskin, Sara (auth)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2020.
Series:	Islam - Thought, Culture, and Society 2
Subjects:	Islamic life & practice. Middle Eastern history. history of medicine infertility Women in Islam Islamic family law Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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