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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? How did blighted people view their own bodies? This book deals with these questions.

Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 31/08/2014
      ISBN13: 9780748695881, 978-0748695881
      ISBN10: 0748695885
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      Book Synopsis
      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? This book deals with these questions.

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