TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richardson,Kristina
TI  - Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies 
SN  - 9780748645084
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Religion / Islam / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Religion
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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 miniature paintings, personal letters, (auto)biographies, travel narratives, erotic poetry, religious polemics, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, you will learn about cultural views and lived experiences of disability and difference
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/c1b058c6-80b2-4ad0-a891-cf61eb50b96b
ER  -