Sex and Society in Islam: Birth Control before the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization series)
x, 178pp. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine head, moderate bump to heel; shelf number label on spine; corners lightly rubbed. Top text block edge just starting to fox, top and fore edges just starting to tan. Endpapers lightly tanned and just starting to fox. Lender's stamps, security device and markings on endpapers and prelims. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Chapters include Why Islam permitted contraception; Contraception and the rights of women; Conception theory in Muslim thought; Arabic medicine and birth control; Birth control in the popular tradition; Population and Middle Eastern History.