Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500–1800
Sara (Loyola University Maryland) Scalenghe
Cambridge University Press, 2016
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781107622791
- ISBN-10
- 1107622794
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2016
- Publication date
- 2016-04-28
- Pages
- 220
- Dimensions
- 153x228x16
- Weight
- 324