Difference And Disability In The Medieval Islamic World
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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
Author | : Kristina Richardson |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780748664917 |
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A revealing portrait of Medieval Arab notions of physical difference, this book uses close analysis of primary sources to bring to light cultural views and lived experiences of disability and difference.
Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
Author | : Kristina Richardson |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2012-07-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780748645084 |
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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 anecdotes, personal letters, (auto)biographies, erotic poetry, non-binding legal opinions, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, the cultural views and experiences of disability and difference in the medieval Islamic world are brought to life.
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Author | : Kristina Richardson |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780755635795 |
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Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history In Middle Eastern cities as early as the mid-8th century, the Sons of Sasan begged, trained animals, sold medicinal plants and potions, and told fortunes. They captivated the imagination of Arab writers and playwrights, who immortalized their strange ways in poems, plays, and the Thousand and One Nights. Using a wide range of sources, Richardson investigates the lived experiences of these Sons of Sasan, who changed their name to Ghuraba' (Strangers) by the late 1200s. This name became the Arabic word for the Roma and Roma-affiliated groups also known under the pejorative term 'Gypsies'. This book uses mostly Ghuraba'-authored works to understand their tribal organization and professional niches as well as providing a glossary of their language Sin. It also examines the urban homes, neighborhoods, and cemeteries that they constructed. Within these isolated communities they developed and nurtured a deep literary culture and astrological tradition, broadening our appreciation of the cultural contributions of medieval minority communities. Remarkably, the Ghuraba' began blockprinting textual amulets by the 10th century, centuries before printing on paper arrived in central Europe. When Roma tribes migrated from Ottoman territories into Bavaria and Bohemia in the 1410s, they may have carried this printing technology into the Holy Roman Empire.
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Author | : Kristina Richardson |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780755635788 |
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Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history In Middle Eastern cities as early as the mid-8th century, the Sons of Sasan begged, trained animals, sold medicinal plants and potions, and told fortunes. They captivated the imagination of Arab writers and playwrights, who immortalized their strange ways in poems, plays, and the Thousand and One Nights. Using a wide range of sources, Richardson investigates the lived experiences of these Sons of Sasan, who changed their name to Ghuraba' (Strangers) by the late 1200s. This name became the Arabic word for the Roma and Roma-affiliated groups also known under the pejorative term 'Gypsies'. This book uses mostly Ghuraba'-authored works to understand their tribal organization and professional niches as well as providing a glossary of their language Sin. It also examines the urban homes, neighborhoods, and cemeteries that they constructed. Within these isolated communities they developed and nurtured a deep literary culture and astrological tradition, broadening our appreciation of the cultural contributions of medieval minority communities. Remarkably, the Ghuraba' began blockprinting textual amulets by the 10th century, centuries before printing on paper arrived in central Europe. When Roma tribes migrated from Ottoman territories into Bavaria and Bohemia in the 1410s, they may have carried this printing technology into the Holy Roman Empire.
Routledge Revivals Medieval Islamic Civilization 2006
Author | : Josef Meri |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2018-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351668231 |
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Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th centuries. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts in fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. Entries also explore the importance of interfaith relations and the permeation of persons, ideas, and objects across geographical and intellectual boundaries between Europe and the Islamic world. This reference work provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization and brings together in one authoritative text all aspects of Islamic civilization during the Middle Ages. Accessible to scholars, students and non-specialists, this resource will be of great use in research and understanding of the roots of today's Islamic society as well as the rich and vivid culture of medieval Islamic civilization.
The Oxford Handbook of Disability History
Author | : Michael A. Rembis,Catherine Jean Kudlick,Kim E. Nielsen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190234959 |
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This Handbook brings together twenty-nine authors from around the world, each expert in a different area within the history of disability. This collection of new and original essays forms a benchmark in a field of historical inquiry that has been growing and maturing over the last thirty years. It is the first book to gather critical essays that incorporate studies from South and East Asia, eastern and western Europe, Australia, North America, and the Arab world. This Handbook is unique among other disability history texts in that it engages simultaneously in methodological and historiographic debates and in a further articulation and analysis of the lived experiences of disabled people.
Disability in the Ottoman Arab World 1500 1800
Author | : Sara Scalenghe |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2014-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107044791 |
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This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.
Disability in Africa
Author | : Toyin Falola,Nic Hamel |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781580469715 |
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Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field.