Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World

Blighted Bodies

AvKristina Richardson

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-08-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 9 mm
Vikt:270 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748695881

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Kristina L. Richardson is an Assistant Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Münster and Bonn in Germany.

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Richardson has written an original and highly learned first book that reveals much about the cultural construction of difference and disability and about scholarly friendships and communities that shaped that culture.

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Introduction; 1. Physical Blights in Islamic Thought; 2. Drug Overdose, Disability and Male Friendship in Fifteenth-Century Mamluk Cairo; 3. Recollecting and Reconfiguring Afflicted Male Bodies in Fifteenth-Century Literary Anthologies; 4. The Science of Men: Hadith Transmitters and Their Marked Bodies; 5. The Blight of Male Baldness in Sixteenth-Century Mecca; Epilogue.