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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 impacted every aspect of a person's life, including performance of religious ritual, marriage, job opportunities, and the ability to buy and sell property. Sara Scalenghe's book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa, and the first to examine disability in the non-Western world before the nineteenth century. Unlike previous scholarly works that examine disability as discussed in religious texts such as the Qur'an and the Hadith, this study focuses on representations and classifications of disability and impairment across a wide range of biographical, legal, medical, and divinatory primary sources.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800
• Author: Sara Scalenghe
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220
• EAN: 9781107622791
• ISBN: 1107622794
• ID: 02895939
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 324 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 228 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. April 2016

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