This book explores the position of Islamic theology and jurisprudence towards people with disabilities. It seeks to reconcile their existence with the concept o

The book analyzes attitudes to people with various disabilities based on Muslim jurists’ works in the Middle Ages and the modern era. Very little has been wri

Medieval Arab notions of physical difference can feel singularly arresting for modern audiences. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils wer

This edited collection of essays examines how religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness.

This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.