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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
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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.
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Keywords
- arab
- bodies
- Cairo
- classical Arabic
- Damascus
- Damasvus
- Disability
- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
- Friendship
- Hadith
- History
- History: earliest times to present day
- Humanities
- islamic
- KUnlatched
- Mamluk
- Masculinity
- Mecca
- Muslim world
- Ottoman
- Religion
- Religion / Islam
- Religion / Islam / History
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
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