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DisabilityintheOttomanArabWorld,1500–1800 Physical,sensory,andmentalimpairmentscaninfluenceanindividual’s status in society as much as the more familiar categories of gender, sexual orientation, age, class, religion, race, and ethnicity. This was especiallytrueoftheearlymodernArabOttomanworld,wherebeing judgedableordisabledimpactedeveryaspectofaperson’slife,includ- ing performance of religious rituals, marriage, job opportunities, and the ability to buy and sell property. Sara Scalenghe’s book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities not only in the MiddleEastandNorthAfrica,butalsointhepremodernnon-Western world.Unlikepreviousscholarlyworksthatexaminedisabilityasdis- cussedinreligioustexts,thisstudyfocusesonrepresentationsandclas- sificationsofdisabilityandimpairmentacrossawiderangeofprimary sources, including chronicles, biographies, the law, medicine, belles lettres,anddreammanuals.Assuch,thisisasocioculturalhistorythat seeks to explain how blindness, deafness and muteness, impairments of the mind, and intersex were understood and experienced in a spe- cific Arab-Islamic context within the geographical area that includes present-day Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine/Israel under Ottomanruleintheearlymodernperiod. SaraScalengheisanassistantprofessorofhistoryatLoyolaUniversity Maryland. CambridgeStudiesinIslamicCivilization EditorialBoard ChaseF.Robinson,TheGraduateCenter,TheCityUniversityofNewYork (generaleditor) MichaelCook,PrincetonUniversity MaribelFierro,SpanishNationalResearchCouncil AlanMikhail,YaleUniversity DavidO.Morgan,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison IntisarRabb,HarvardUniversity MuhammadQasimZaman,PrincetonUniversity Publishedtitlesarelistedatthebackofthebook. Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500–1800 SARA SCALENGHE LoyolaUniversityMaryland 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107044791 (cid:2)C SaraScalenghe2014 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2014 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Scalenghe,Sara,1970–author. DisabilityintheOttomanArabworld,1500–1800/SaraScalenghe,Loyola UniversityMaryland. pagescm.–(CambridgestudiesinIslamiccivilization) isbn978-1-107-04479-1(hardback) 1.Peoplewithdisabilities–MiddleEast–History. 2.Humanbody–Social aspects–MiddleEast. 3.Intersexuality–History. 4.Insanity(Law)– MiddleEast–History. I.Title. II.Series:Cambridgestudiesin Islamiccivilization. hv1559.m53s23 2014 305.9080956–dc23 2013039679 isbn978-1-107-04479-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof urlsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublicationand doesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateor appropriate. To my father and my brother, Franco and Davide, and to the memory of my mother and my sister, Laura and Cecilia.
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