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Author Richardson, Kristina L., author.

Title Difference and disability in the medieval Islamic world : blighted bodies / Kristina L. Richardson.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012].

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 158 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction ---- 1. Ahat in Islamic Thought --- 2. Literary Networks in Mamluk Cairo --- 3. Recollecting and Reconfiguring Afflicted Literary Bodies --- 4. Transgressive Bodies, Transgressive Hadith --- 5. Public Insults and Undoing Shame: Censoring the Blighted Body.
Summary Outlines the complex significance of bodies in the late medieval central Arab Islamic lands. 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 an.
Note Print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Sociology of disability -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500.
Disabilities -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- To 1500.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
Sociology of disability. (OCoLC)fst01123936
Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
Chronological Term To 1500
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Richardson, Kristina L. Difference and disability in the medieval Islamic world. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 9780748645077 (DLC) 2012551961 (OCoLC)769743924
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