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@book{ Verskin2020,
title = {Barren women: religion and medicine in the medieval Middle East},
author = {Verskin, Sara},
year = {2020},
series = {Islam - thought, culture and society},
pages = {310},
volume = {2},
address = {Berlin},
publisher = {De Gruyter},
issn = {2628-4286},
isbn = {978-3-11-059658-8},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110596588},
urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-67674-1},
abstract = {This book explores the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world by examining legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching. The author illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance and scientific theories of reproduction contoured the intellectual and social landscape infertile women had to navigate.},
keywords = {Nahost; Middle East; Mittelalter; middle ages; Frau; woman; Islam; Islam; Familienrecht; family law; Reproduktion; reproduction; Kinderlosigkeit; childlessness}}