Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (92 page)
8
Joseph Massad is currently preparing a study on attitudes toward sex in Arabic literature in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I have benefited from discussions with him about the development of attitudes during the period.
9
T
aht
a
wi
,
Takhli
s al-ibri
z,
78.
10
Busta
ni
,
Udaba
ʾ al-ʿarab,
2:27
.
11
Busta
ni
,
Udaba
ʾ al-ʿarab,
2:75-80.
12
See Shihab al-Dīn,
Dī
wa
n,
pt. 4
(fi
al-ikhwa
n wa al-nudma
n wa al-h
isa
n min aljawa
ri
wa al-ghilma
n);
Majdi
Bey,
Di
wa
n,
pp. 88, 118, 123, 241, 242, 247- 48, 284, 306, 313 - 14, 317-18, 319-20, 335, 354, 377; Fikri
,
al-A
tha
r al-fikriyyah,