Islamicate Sexualities

Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire

Edited by Kathryn Babayan

Edited by Afsaneh Najmabadi

    • Preface by Kathryn Babayan and Afsaneh Najmabadi
    1. The Past Is a Foreign Country? The Times and Spaces of Islamicate Sexuality Studies by Valerie Traub
    2. A Handsome Boy among Those Barbarous Turks: Cervantes’s Muslims and the Art and Science of Desire by Leyla Rouhi
    3. Cross-Dressing and Female Same-Sex Marriage in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures by Sahar Amer
    4. Comparison, Competition, and Cross-Dressing: Cross-Cultural Analysis in a Contested World by Brad Epps
    5. The Obscenity of the Vizier by Frederic Lagrange
    6. Homoerotic Liaisons among the Mamluk Elite in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria by Everett K. Rowson
    7. “In Sprit We Are Each Other’s Sorrow”: Female Companionship in Seventeenth-Century Safavi Iran by Kathryn Babayan
    8. Types, Acts, or What? Regulation of Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iran by Afsaneh Najmabadi
    • Epilogue: Sexual Epistemologies, East in West by Dina Al-Kassim
    • Bibliography
    • About the Authors
    • Index
  • Cover: Islamicate Sexualities

Kathryn Babayan is Assistant Professor of Iranian History and Culture at the University of Michigan.

Afsaneh Najmabadi is Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Harvard University.