Description
| Product ID: | 9780748695881 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World |
| Subtitle: | Blighted Bodies |
| Authors: | Author: Kristina Richardson |
| Page Count: | 168 |
| Subjects: | Social groups: religious groups and communities, Islamic studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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? This book deals with these questions. |
| Imprint Name: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-08-31 |
