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oapen-20.500.12657-307982024-03-25T09:51:41Z Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World Richardson, Kristina 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 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. 2018-01-24 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-24 03:00:27 2020-04-01T13:13:29Z 2020-04-01T13:13:29Z 2012-07-23 book 642704 OCN: 818846728 9780748645084 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30798 eng application/pdf n/a 642704.pdf Edinburgh University Press 100961 2a191404-86cd-479e-afc8-ff2b8d611a94 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780748645084 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100961 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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