Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World. Blighted Bodies, Paperback - Kristina Richardson

Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness an...

Describing various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, and political, this work details such day-to-day activ...

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses...

Reducere. In the 'encyclopaedic' fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, incl...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The SEND Code of Practice (2015) reinforced the requirement that all teachers must meet the needs of all learners. This topical book provides pract...

This book explores the experiences and identities of minoritized Latinx mothers who are raising a child who is labeled as both an emergent bilingua...

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Reducere. In Rabbinic Tales of Destruction, Julia Watts Belser examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Judea. Faced with stories of sexual vi...

This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought about and practiced...

This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as ""bodies in commotion"" - bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, c...

Kantorowicz's 1957 study of 1, 200 years of monarchy has had a profound affect on the way academics think about the study of history.Publisher: Mac...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20C...

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins e...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 25C...

Kantorowicz's 1957 study of 1, 200 years of monarchy has had a profound affect on the way academics think about the study of history.

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Articulating Bodies shows how Victorian fiction's narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to categorize bodies, both constructin...

A glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints' relics to lovesick troubadours. Brings together medicine, art, poetr...

Based on extensive research, Queer Holiness collects and relates prophetic and transformative narratives of experience, shared directly by disabled...

Reducere. Academia isn't an easy place to be if your brain isn't quite right.Colleagues carelessly call each other ``schizo`` and ``bipolar.`` Another collea...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 242Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 157 x 233 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Amand...

DescriptionNovel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century ...

Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these...

Reducere. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives w...

Al-Ghazali is arguably one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Islam, and his writings have received greater scholarly attention in ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Beth HarryAuthor: Janette KlingnerForeword by: Lisa D. DelpitThe authors present compelling stories representing the range ...

Analyzing the invisible abled body through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and BowenPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Jere...

Description"Carole Rawcliffe continues with her mission to clean up the Middle Ages. In earlier work she has already given us scholarly yet sympath...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Kristin RossNumber of pages: 274Collection: October BooksPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 183 x 249 x 14Cover t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Harry RichardsonIn the scorching sands of Arabia, Mohammed ibn Abdullah (The Prophet Mohammed) had a problem. After preachi...

Reducere. Description"Medicine still contains an oral tradition, passed down in stories: the stories patients tell us, the ones we tell them, and the ones we...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anand Vivek TanejaIn the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds ...

The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today's hot button issues--including holy wars, women's rights, the rise of...

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Reducere. I began my study of Gog and Magog more than fifteen years ago in the early 90's while resident in New York. My subsequent public lecture on the sub...

A timely anthology that examines, interrogates, and critiques representations of race and difference across various Harry Potter media, including b...

A comprehensive, rigorous analysis of all the significant medieval Islamic and Jewish proofs for the eternity of the world, the creation of the wor...

In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape as philosophy in the Islamic world. Yet, this ...

Reducere. DescriptionPeople in Western societies have long been interested in their dreams and what they mean. However, few non-Muslims in the West are likel...

Reducere. A Different Perspective is written for travelers to Spain and Portugal who find history part of the pleasure of the trip. In cities where the cathe...

The Blighted Road is a 17th-century story of two women's harrowing journeys through plague and a brutal witch-hunt. Orla, renowned healer and mid-w...