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


Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs 39
Islamicate Sexualities
Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire
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