ACLS Humanities E-Book: Sex and society in Islam: birth control before the nineteenth century

Sex and society in Islam: birth control before the nineteenth century

Musallam, Basim.

Year: 1983.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of tables

Preface

Introduction Birth control and pre-modern populations

1 Why Islam permitted contraception

2 Contraception and the rights of women

3 Conception theory in Muslim thought

4 Arabic medicine and birth control

5 Birth control in the popular tradition

6 Population and Middle Eastern history

Notes

Sources

Other works cited in the text

Index

reviews

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Title:

Sex and society in Islam : birth control before the nineteenth century B.F. Musallam.

Author:

Musallam, Basim

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2008
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Source Version:

Sex and society in Islam : birth control before the nineteenth century B.F. Musallam.
Musallam, Basim
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00923

Subject Headings:

• Birth control -- Religious aspects -- Islam
• Birth control -- Islamic Empire

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• Includes index.
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