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Barren Women: Religion and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East
Author
Sara Verskin
Series
Islam—Thought, Culture, and Society, vol. 2
Content
xiv + 309 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Boston: De Gruyter
Publication notes
An
open-access version
is available
Revised dissertation, Princeton University
Description
Focuses on the Arab-Islamic world and identifies intersections of law, medicine, religion, and science.
Main subject
Health and Medicine
History
Law
Religion and Spirituality
Science, Environment, Mathematics, and Technology
ISBN
9783110595673 (cloth); 9783110681628 (pap.); 9783110596588 (ebook); 9783110593679 (ebook)
Citation
Verskin, Sara.
Barren Women: Religion and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East.
Islam—Thought, Culture, and Society, vol. 2. Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Sylvia. Accessed July 1, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2054.
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11-16-2023
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Gender and History
33.3 (2021): 805–21
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