Disability in the Arab Ottoman World, 1500-1800

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220 pages 2014

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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 in a specific Arab-Islamic context.

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