Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World : Blighted Bodies /

Outlines the complex significance of bodies in the late medieval central Arab Islamic landsDid 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Richardson, Kristina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Islamic Studies.
HISTORY / Medieval.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 ʻĀhāt 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

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