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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Glavni avtor:	Richardson, Kristina
Format:	Online
Jezik:	angleščina
Izdano:	Edinburgh University Press 2021
Teme:	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 dostop:	642704
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