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Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500–1800 - Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Scalenghe, Sara (Loyola University Maryland)
Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500–1800 - Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Scalenghe, Sara (Loyola University Maryland)
This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa. A sociocultural history, it seeks to explain how disabilities were understood and experienced in the Arab-Islamic context within the geographical area that includes present-day Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine/Israel under Ottoman rule in the early modern period.
224 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | July 21, 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9781107044791 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 220 |
Dimensions | 231 × 158 × 19 mm · 522 g (Weight (estimated)) |