Inhalt: This book explores the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world by examining legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching. The author illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance and scientific theories of reproduction contoured the intellectual and social landscape infertile women had to navigate.
Schlagwörter:Nahost; Middle East; Mittelalter; middle ages; woman; Islam; Islam; Familienrecht; family law; Reproduktion; reproduction; Kinderlosigkeit; childlessness; history of medicine infertility
SSOAR Kategorie:Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Monographie