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? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular vision of physical difference? This title outlines the complex significance of bodies [...]
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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? This title outlines the complex significance of bodies in the late Medieval central Arab Islamic Lands.