Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes,…
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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
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? How did blighted people view their own bodies? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular vision of physical difference?
This book deals with these questions.