Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 723) - Hardcover

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0860788555 ISBN 13: 9780860788553

Verlag: Routledge, 2022

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From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam explores the multi-layered and complex textual universe of medieval Islam. The power of the ruler sits alongside the power of the trickster, as games of detection and verbal erudition are displayed for the edification of the reader. Humour is not lacking either as male and female characters indulge in various forms of wit that redefine and recast the sacred. For much of this world, the body reigns supreme: not only in illness and miracle cures but in displays of transgression and torture. Covering the range of literature from sacred text to history, biography and anecdote, this book provides a stimulating analysis of the world of medieval Islamic mentalités.

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Fedwa Malti-Douglas is College Professor and The Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she is also Adjunct Professor of Law in the School of Law. She is the author of numerous scholarly books and the winner of the 1997 Kuwait Prize for Arts and Letters. Her recent work, THE STARR REPORT DISROBED (Columbia University Press, 2000), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0860788555
• ISBN 13: 9780860788553
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 314
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