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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies
Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World Blighted Bodies
Author: Kristina Richardson
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 peop...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780748645077
ISBN-10: 0748645071
Publication Date: 7/23/2012
Pages: 168
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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