Muslim midwives : the craft of birthing in the premodern middle east /
This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. The author casts the midwife's social status in premodern Islam as a privileged position from which she could mediate betwe...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
