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Darrera modificació: 2012-10-10
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Richardson, Kristina, Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies, Edimburg - Nova York, Edinburgh University Press - Columbia University Press, 2012, 168 pp.
- Resum
- This book outlines the complex significance of bodies in the late medieval central Arab Islamic lands. 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? Through close analyses of anecdotes, personal letters, (auto)biographies, erotic poetry, non-binding legal opinions, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, the cultural views and experiences of disability and difference in the medieval Islamic world are brought to life. -- Kristina Richardson is an Assistant Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York, and is Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, University of Münster, Germany.
Contents:
* Introduction
* 1: 'Ahat in Islamic Thought
* 2: Literary Networks in Mamluk Cairo
* 3: Recollecting and Reconfiguring Afflicted Literary Bodies
* 4: Transgressive Bodies, Transgressive Hadith
* 5: Public Insults and Undoing Shame: Censoring the Blighted Body
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Història de la literatura
Arabisme
Àrab
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748645077
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