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

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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 influence...

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Glavni autor: Richardson, Kristina L. (Autor)
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
Serija:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Teme:
Sociology of disability.
RELIGION > Islam > History.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Humanities.
History : earliest times to present day.
History.
Early modern history : c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
Disabilities > Social aspects > Middle East > To 1500.
Sociology of disability > Middle East > History > To 1500.
Middle East.
Theses et ecrits academiques.
Academic theses.
Electronic books.
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  • 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.

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