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Sara Verskin
University of Toronto
Occupation
Lecturer
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ABOUT
Sara Verskin is a scholar of the medieval Arab-Islamic world specializing in the intersection of Islamic law, gender, and medicine. Her book Barren Women: Religion and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East was published in 2020.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
7th-13th Centuries
Comparative
Gender/Women's Studies
History Of Medicine
Islamic Law
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
History Of Religion
Specialties
Women
Medicine
Fertility / Infertility
Abstracts
Compassionate Conservatives: Medieval Muslim Jurists Imagine the Spiritual Experiences of Women