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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 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, biographies and autobiographies, erotic poetry, non-binding legal opinions, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, Kristina Richardson brings the cultural views and experiences of disability and difference in the medieval Islamic world to life. This title investigates the place of physically different, disabled and ill individuals in medieval Islam. It is organised around the lives and works of 6 Muslim men, each highlighting a different aspect of bodily difference. It addresses broad cultural questions relating to social class, religious orthodoxy, moral reputation, drug use, male homoeroticism and self-representation in the public sphere. It moves towards a coherent theory of medieval disability and bodily aesthetics in Islamic cultural traditions.

Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Social aspects --- History --- Sociology of disablement --- Sociology of impairment --- People with disabilities --- Disability --- Disabling conditions --- Handicaps --- Impairment --- Physical disabilities --- Physical handicaps --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Animals with disabilities --- Sociological aspects --- islamic --- Arab --- disability --- friendship --- bodies --- masculinity --- Mamluk --- Ottoman --- Cairo --- Damasvus --- Mecca --- classical Arabic --- Damascus --- Hadith --- Muslim world --- Islam --- History of human medicine --- History of civilization

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Evliyā Çelebī, the famous Ottoman traveler of the seventeenth century, visited many countries under the sovereignity of the Ottoman Empire in Europe, Asia and Africa, including the Mecca and Medina. This book offers a critical edition of the section from Evliyā's Travels about Medina. It includes first-hand information on the administrative, historical, cultural, traditional and etymological structure of the city, and on everyday life in Medina during the seventeenth century. Evliyā Çelebī provides the readers with valuable information not only on the city itself, but also on its environs. This book offers a transliteration of the relevant passages on the basis of several Ottoman manuscripts, as well as an English translation made by Robert Dankoff.

Evliya Çelebi, --- Çelebi, Evliya, --- Ėvlii︠a︡ Chelebi, --- Evliya Efendi, --- Avliyāʼ Çalabī bin Darvīş Muḥammed Ẓillī, --- Chelebi, Ewliya, --- Awliyā Chalabī, --- Evligia Tselempē, --- Tselempē, Evligia, --- Ewliya Chelebi, --- Evlijā Čelebi, --- Evlija Efendi, --- Evliyâ ibn Mehmed Zıllî, --- Evliya-i Gülşenî, --- Evliya Tshelebi, --- Ibn Dervish Mehmed Zilli, --- Evliya, --- Chelebi, Ėvlii︠a︡, --- Evlia Cselebi, --- Cselebi, Evlia, --- Evlia Tselempi, --- Tselempi, Evlia, --- Evliya, Efendi, --- Evliyâ Tchélébi, --- أوليا چلبي، --- اوليا چلبي --- Mecca (Saudi Arabia) --- Medina (Saudi Arabia) --- Madīnah (Saudi Arabia) --- Medinat an Nabi (Saudi Arabia) --- Medinat Rasul Allah (Saudi Arabia) --- Médine (Saudi Arabia) --- Madīnah al-Munawwarah (Saudi Arabia) --- Ṭābah (Saudi Arabia) --- Taiba (Saudi Arabia) --- Ṭaybah (Saudi Arabia) --- History. --- Travelers' writings, Turkish. --- Travel --- Description and travel. --- Turkish travelers' writings --- Turkish literature