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100 1  Richardson, Kristina L.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Difference and disability in the medieval Islamic world :
       |bblighted bodies /|cKristina L. Richardson. 
264  1 Edinburgh :|bEdinburgh University Press,|c[2012]. 
300    1 online resource (ix, 158 pages) :|billustrations 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
588 0  Print version record. 
648  7 To 1500|2fast 
650  0 Sociology of disability|zMiddle East|xHistory|yTo 1500. 
650  0 Disabilities|xSocial aspects|zMiddle East|yTo 1500. 
650  7 HISTORY|xMedieval.|2bisacsh 
650  7 RELIGION|xIslam|xHistory.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Sociology of disability.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01123936 
651  7 Middle East.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01241586 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aRichardson, Kristina L.|tDifference and 
       disability in the medieval Islamic world.|dEdinburgh : 
       Edinburgh University Press, ©2012|z9780748645077|w(DLC)  
       2012551961|w(OCoLC)769743924 
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