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This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. The author casts the midwife's social status in premodern Islam as a privileged position from which she cou…
Ḥalīma bt. Abī Dhuʾayb (first/seventh century) features in Arabic-Islamic sources as the most prominent of the prophet Muḥammad’s several nurses who breastfed and cared for him in his first years of life (al-Ḥalabī, 1:94). The presumably earliest detailed record of Ḥalīma’s stor…