Difference And Disability In The Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies

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.

• | By (Author): Kristina Richardson
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 31, 2014
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 168 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0748695885
• | ISBN-13: 9780748695881