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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies

Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies

Richardson, Kristina

Paperback

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryIslamGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 0748695885
ISBN13: 9780748695881
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2014
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? Through close analyses of anecdotes, personal letters, (auto)biographies, erotic poetry, non-binding legal opinions, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, the cultural views and experiences of disability and difference in the medieval Islamic world are brought to life.

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