Disability and its histories in the Arab world Framing this book Blindness Deafness and muteness Intersex Impairments of the mind Conclusion Epilogue.
Physical, sensory, and mental impairments can influence an individual's status in society as much as the more familiar categories of gender, class, religion, race, and ethnicity. This was especially true of the early modern Arab Ottoman world, where being judged able or disabled…
This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.
This book is the first on the history of both physical and mentaldisabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.
This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.
Physical, sensory, and mental impairments can influence an individual's status in society as much as the more familiar categories of gender, class, religion, race, and ethnicity. This was especially true of the early modern Arab Ottoman world, where being judged able or disabled…
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 …