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Islamicate sexualities : translations across temporal geographies of desire
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Islamicate sexualities : translations across temporal geographies of desire

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"This anthology emerges from a seminar sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in May 2003"--Pref.

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.

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