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Islamicate Sexualities

Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire

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$19.95 • £17.95 • €18.95

ISBN 9780674032040

Publication Date: 09/30/2008

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  • 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

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