[PDF.51hh] Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies

Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies

[PDF.fa73] Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies

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 | #2035620 in Books |  2014-09-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x.30 x8.90l,.0 | File type: PDF | 168 pages

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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." -- H-Disability, H-Net s |||"Kristina

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 anecdotes, personal letters, (auto)biographies, erotic poetry, non-binding l...

You easily download any file type for your device.Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies   |  Kristina Richardson. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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