Abstract

Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: History of Childhood in Islam - PART 1 THE NEW-BORN INFANT - Tunfat al-Mawdud: an Islamic Childrearing Manual from the Fourteenth Century - On Tahnik: an Early Islamic Childhood Rite - PART 2 CHILD EDUCATION - Al-Ghazali on Child Education - Corporal Punishment in Medieval Islamic Educational Thought - PART 3 CHILD MORTALITY AND ADULT REACTIONS - Infants, Children and Death in Medieval Muslim Society - Sabr (Steadfastness) of Bereaved Parents: a Motif in Medieval Islamic Consolation Treatises and its Origins - Infanticide in Medieval Muslim Society - Concluding Remarks - Notes and References - Bibliography - Index

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