Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World

Medieval Arab notions of physical difference can feel singularly arresting for modern audiences. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily ‘blights’, as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular visio...

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1. Verfasser: Richardson, Kristina
Format: Livro
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh University Press 2012-07-23
Schlagworte:
History
islamic
Arab
disability
friendship
bodies
masculinity
Mamluk
Ottoman
Cairo
Damasvus
Mecca
classical Arabic
Damascus
Hadith
Muslim world
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
Online Zugang:https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28347
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