Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World : Blighted Bodies / / Kristina L. Richardson.
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 influenc...
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Richardson, Kristina L. Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World Blighted Bodies / Kristina L. Richardson. Edinburgh University Press 2012 Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012. ©2012. 1 online resource (169 p.) text txt computer c online resource cr English Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1ʿAhāt 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 -- Bibliography -- Index. Based on author's dissertation. Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-156) and index. 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, biographies and autobiographies, erotic poetry, non-binding legal opinions, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, Kristina Richardson brings the cultural views and experiences of disability and difference in the medieval Islamic world to life. This title investigates the place of physically different, disabled and ill individuals in medieval Islam. It is organised around the lives and works of 6 Muslim men, each highlighting a different aspect of bodily difference. It addresses broad cultural questions relating to social class, religious orthodoxy, moral reputation, drug use, male homoeroticism and self-representation in the public sphere. It moves towards a coherent theory of medieval disability and bodily aesthetics in Islamic cultural traditions. Description based on print version record. CC BY-NC Knowledge Unlatched Disabilities Social aspects Middle East To 1500. Sociology of disability Middle East History To 1500. Electronic books. History islamic Arab disability friendship bodies masculinity Mamluk Ottoman Cairo Damasvus Mecca classical Arabic Damascus Hadith Muslim world 1-322-98081-0 0-7486-4507-1 |
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