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Disability in the Arab Ottoman World, 1500-1800

Sara Scalenghe · 2014

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This text explores the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule. The author seeks to explain how blindness, deafness and muteness, intersex conditions, and certain mental impairments were understood and experienced in a specific Arab-Islamic context.

Book details

Year
2014
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Editions
1
Pages
220
ISBN
9781107044791

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