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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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2012. ©2012. |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
Notes: | Based on author's dissertation. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.