FEMALE SEXUALITY IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD
Author | : PERNILLA. MYRNE |
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Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9781784539870 |
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Author | : PERNILLA. MYRNE |
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Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9781784539870 |
Author | : Pernilla Myrne |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1838605037 |
In the early Islamic world, Arabic erotic compendia and sex manuals were a popular literary genre. Although primarily written by male authors, the erotic publications from this era often emphasised the sexual needs of women and the importance of female romantic fulfilment. Pernilla Myrne here explores this phenomenon, examining a range of Arabic literature to shed fresh light onto the complexities of female sexuality under the Abbasids and the Buyids. Based on an impressive array of neglected medical, religious-legal, literary and entertainment sources, Myrne elucidates the tension between depictions of women's strong sexual agency and their subordinated social role in various contexts. In the process she uncovers a great diversity of approaches from the 9th to the 11th century, including the sexual handbook the Encyclopedia of Pleasure (Jawami' al-ladhdha), which portrayed the diversity of female desires, asserting the importance of mutual satisfaction through lively poems and stories. This is the first in-depth, comprehensive analysis of female sexuality in the early Islamic world and is essential reading for all scholars of Middle Eastern history and Arabic literature.
Author | : Gavin R. G. Hambly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : 9780333800355 |
Women often appear invisible in what is widely perceived as the male-oriented society of Islam. This work seeks to redress the balance with a series of essays on women in the pre-modern phase of Islamic history. The reader will encounter here rulers, politicians, poets and patrons, as well as some larger than life fictitious females from the pages of Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature. There are also accounts of quiet or troubled lives of ordinary women preserved in the court records of Mamluk Egypt and Ottoman Turkey, reminders that historical research can resuscitate the lives of subaltern as well as elite women from the past.
Author | : Leila Ahmed |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300258178 |
A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence. “Ahmed’s book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today.”—Edward W. Said “Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories.”—Rana Kabbani, The Guardian
Author | : Suad Joseph |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 873 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004128182 |
Family, Law and Politics, Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, brings together over 360 entries on women, family, law, politics, and Islamic cultures around the world.
Author | : Nadia Maria El Cheikh |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674736362 |
When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads in 750 CE and ushered in Islam’s Golden Age, ideas about gender and sexuality were central to the process by which the caliphate achieved self-definition and articulated its systems of power and thought. Nadia Maria El Cheikh’s study reveals the importance of women to the writing of early Islamic history.
Author | : Ruth Mazo Karras |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2023-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000859274 |
Now in its fourth edition, Sexuality in Medieval Europe provides a lively account of a society whose attitudes toward sexuality both were ancestral to, and differed from, contemporary ones. The volume is structured not by types of sexual interactions or deviance, but to reflect the difference in gendered experiences when sex is seen as an act one person does to another. Sexual activity, within and outside of marriage, as well as sexual inactivity, had different meanings based on gender, social status, religious affiliation, and more. This book considers these iterations of medieval sexuality in its effort to show there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality. With an emphasis on Christian Western Europe over the entire course of the Middle Ages, it also includes comparative material on neighboring cultures at the time. Alongside being reworked for further clarity and readability, the fourth edition offers substantial new material on trans scholarship and methodological attempts to recoup a trans past; changes in the treatment of sex work and its terminology; and new material on Byzantine and Muslim culture. Sexuality in Medieval Europe is an essential resource for all those who study medieval history, medieval culture, and the history of sexuality in Europe.
Author | : Francesca Leoni |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Islamic art |
ISBN | : 9781409464389 |
Dedicated to the topic of eroticism and sexuality in the visual production of the medieval and early modern Muslim world, this volume offers new insights and methodological models that extend our understanding of erotic and sexual subjects in the Islamic tradition. The essays shed light on the diverse socio-cultural milieus of erotic images, on the motivations underlying their production, and on the responses generated by their circulation.
Author | : Donald R. Hill |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2019-07-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1474469132 |
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Author | : Nikki R. Keddie |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300157460 |
This history of Middle Eastern women is the first to survey gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islamic period to the present. Outstanding scholars analyze a rich array of sources ranging from histories, biographical dictionaries, law books, prescriptive treatises, and archival records, to the Traditions (hadith) of the Prophet and imaginative works like the Thousand and One Nights, to modern writings by Middle Eastern women and by Western writers. They show that gender boundaries in the Middle East have been neither fixed nor immutable: changes in family patterns, religious rituals, socio-economic necessity, myth and ideology—and not least, women’s attitudes—have expanded or circumscribed women’s roles and behavior through the ages.