| ISBN |
9780674032040 |
| Title |
Islamicate sexualities : translations across temporal geographies of desire / edited by Kathryn Babayan and Afsaneh Najmabadi ; with contributions by Dina Al-Kassim ... [et al.] |
| Publisher |
Cambridge, Mass. : Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2008 |
| Physical desc. |
xiv, 376 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Harvard Middle Eastern monographs 39 |
| Note |
'This anthology emerges from a seminar sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in May 2003"-- Preface |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The past is a foreign country? : the times and spaces of islamicate sexuality studies / Valerie Traub. -- A handsome boy among those barbarous Turks : Cervantes's Muslims and the art and science of desire / Leyla Rouhi. -- Cross-dressing and female same-sex marriage in medieval French and Arabic literatures / Sahar Amer. -- Comparison, competition, and cross-dressing : cross-cultural analysis in a contested world / Brad Epps. -- The obscenity of the vizier / Frédéric Lagrange. -- Homoerotic liaisons among the Mamluk elite in late medieval Egypt and Syria / Everett K. Rowson. -- "In spirit we ate each other's sorrow" : female companionship in seventeenth-century Safavi Iran / Kathryn Babayan. -- Types, acts, or what? : regulation of sexuality in nineteenth-century Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi. -- Epilogue : Sexual epistemologies, East and West / Dina A-Kassim. |
| Person as subject |
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de -- 1547-1616 -- Don Quixote -- Criticism, Textual |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Islamic countries -- History |
| Persian literature -- History and criticism |
| Arabic literature -- History and criticism |
| Literature, Medieval -- Islamic influences |
| Comparative literature -- European and Arabic |
| Comparative literature -- Arabic and European |
| Comparative literature -- European and Persian |
| Comparative literature -- Persian and European |
| Same-sex marriage in literature |
| Added name(s) |
Najmabadi, Afsaneh 1946- |
| Babayan, Kathryn 1960- |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies |
| Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study |
