Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic LiteraturesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1. mar. 2013 - 264 strani Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety. |
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... is not even regularly addressed. Despite the severity of Islamic law toward homosexuality, it appears that in practice homosexuality was tolerated within Muslim societies. During the Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries 21.
... Muslim societies. During the early Abbasid period (ca. 750-850), for instance, homosexuality was broadcast among the fashionable misbehaviors of the time, along with wine drinking, gambling, cockfights, and dogfights.82 In the caliphate ...
... Muslim environment.”90 Much of the information on homosexuality in the medieval Arabic tradition may be gathered from what Arabists call the belletristic tradition (adah), namely, collections of poetry and anecdotes. As a literary genre ...
... Muslim judges as authors of mujun literature, but this type of composition was considered a valid literary genre and does not reflect neces— sarily the sexual orientation or practices of its author nor the degree of permissibility such ...
... Muslim women, many are often silenced or censored. They are also at times unedited, unpublished, and difficult to access not only in manuscript, but even in libraries and bookstores across the Arab world. One of the main challenges of ...
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Crossing Linguistic Borders Etienne de Fougèress Livre des Manières and Arabic Erotic Treatises | 29 |
Crossing Sartorial Lines Female SameSex Marriage in Yde et Olive and The Story of Qamar alZaman and Princess Boudour from the One Thousand ... | 50 |
Crossing the Lines of Friendship Jean Renarts Escoufle Saracen Silk and Intercultural Encounters | 88 |
Crossing Social and Cultural Borders Jean Renarts Escoufle and the Traditions of Zarf jawaris and Qaynas in the Islamicate World | 121 |
Beyond Orientalist Presuppositions | 161 |
Notes | 167 |
Bibliography | 217 |
Index | 239 |
Acknowledgments | 251 |
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