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This work draws on religious normative texts, literary texts, biographical texts and historical texts to look at power, marginality, sexuality and the body in medieval Islam - a world populated by rulers and criminals, uninvited guests and theologians, women and the blind. The medieval texts of Islam, rather than occulting them, explored power, sex, marginality and the body with a frankness that can often still shock readers. The investigation of these issues and "taboo" subjects in this book provide a road into medieval Arabo-Islamic mentalities and a way of coming to grips with the textual strategies society used for grappling with them.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam
• Author: Fedwa Malti-Douglas
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 314
• EAN: 9780860788553
• ISBN: 0860788555
• ID: 04745031
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 560 g
• Dimensions: 222 × 231 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. December 2001

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