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Author Richardson, Kristina L., author.

Title Difference and disability in the medieval Islamic world : blighted bodies / Kristina L. Richardson
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 158 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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 and difference in the medieval Islamic world are brought to life. Key Features Investigates the place of physically different, disabled and ill individuals in medieval Islam Organised around the lives and works of 6 Muslim men, each highlighting a different aspect of bodily difference Addresses broad cultural questions relating to social class, religious orthodoxy, moral reputation, drug use, male homoeroticism and self-representation in the public sphere Moves towards a coherent theory of medieval disability and bodily aesthetics in Islamic cultural traditions
Notes Based on the author's thesis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-156) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Sociology of disability -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500
Disabilities -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- To 1500
Early modern history : c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
History.
History : earliest times to present day.
Humanities.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
Sociology of disability
Middle East
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
History
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012551961
ISBN 9780748645084
074864508X