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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies by Kristina L. Richardson

Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies

Kristina L. Richardson

168 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 deafne...

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