Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500–1800 - Sara Scalenghe - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press - 2016 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
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.
