TY  - GEN
T1  - Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
A1  - Richardson, Kristina
LA  - eng
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-28347
AB  - 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 vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? Through close analyses of miniature paintings, personal letters, (auto)biographies, travel narratives, erotic poetry, religious polemics, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, you will learn about cultural views and lived experiences of disability and difference.
SN  - 9780748645084
KW  - History
KW  - islamic
KW  - Arab
KW  - disability
KW  - friendship
KW  - bodies
KW  - masculinity
KW  - Mamluk
KW  - Ottoman
KW  - Cairo
KW  - Damasvus
KW  - Mecca
KW  - classical Arabic
KW  - Damascus
KW  - Hadith
KW  - Muslim world
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
KW  - thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
ER  -