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Author Scalenghe, Sara, 1970- author.

Title Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800 / Sara Scalenghe, Loyola University Maryland
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 203 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
Contents Disability and its histories in the Arab world -- Framing this book -- Blindness -- Deafness and muteness -- Intersex -- Impairments of the mind -- Conclusion -- Epilogue
Summary This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject People with disabilities -- Middle East -- History
Human body -- Social aspects -- Middle East
Intersexuality -- History
Insanity (Law) -- Middle East -- History
Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
Disabled Persons -- history
Disorders of Sex Development -- history
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
History, 18th Century
Arab World -- history
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Medicine
Human body -- Social aspects
Insanity (Law)
Intersexuality
People with disabilities
Funktionsnedsättningar -- historia.
Personer med funktionsnedsättning -- historia.
SUBJECT Ottoman Empire
Subject Middle East
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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