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17
Zayyat,
Ta
ri
kh al-adab al-ʿarabi
,
268.
Zayyat,
Ta
rikh al-adab al-ʿarabi,268.
18
Ami
n,
Z
ubr al-Isla
m,
138-39.
Ami
n,Z
ubr al-Islam,138-39.
19
Thus, the story of Abu Nuwas and the three boys, and the story of a teacher’s love for the brother of Badr al-Dīn, the Vizier of the Yemen, were omitted in the 1930 edition. Compare
Alflaylah wa laylah
[1835], 1:562ff., and
Alf laylah wa laylah
[1890], 2:190ff., with
Alf laylah wa laylah
[1930], 2:317ff.
Thus, the story of Abu Nuwas and the three boys, and the story of a teacher’s love for the brother of Badr al-Dīn, the Vizier of the Yemen, were omitted in the 1930 edition. Compare
Alflaylah wa laylah
[1835], 1:562ff., and
Alf laylah wa laylah
[1890], 2:190ff., with
Alf laylah wa laylah
[1930], 2:317ff.
20
Dīwān Abī Nuwās
[1932]. Compare with
Dīwān Abī Nuwās
[1898], 402-36, and
Dīwān Abī Nuwās
[1905], 398-439.
Dīwān Abī Nuwās
[1932]. Compare with
Dīwān Abī Nuwās
[1898], 402-36, and
Dīwān Abī Nuwās
[1905], 398-439.
21
Farrūkh,
Abū Nuwās,
83-86.
Farrūkh,
Abū Nuwās,
83-86.
22
Ṣidqī,
Alḥān al-ḥān
, 270-92; Nuwayhī,
Nafsiyyat Abī Nuwās,
54-99; ‘Aqqād,
Abū Nuwās,
39 and 51.
Ṣidqī,
Alḥān al-ḥān
, 270-92; Nuwayhī,
Nafsiyyat Abī Nuwās,
54-99; ‘Aqqād,
Abū Nuwās,
39 and 51.
23
Like its European counterparts, the term
shudhūdhdh jinsī
is used primarily of homosexuality. To say of someone that he is
shādhdh jinsiyyan
will be understood to mean that he is a homosexual, and not, say, a sadist or exhibitionist.
Like its European counterparts, the term
shudhūdhdh jinsī
is used primarily of homosexuality. To say of someone that he is
shādhdh jinsiyyan
will be understood to mean that he is a homosexual, and not, say, a sadist or exhibitionist.
24
On the formation of the concept of “sexuality” in late nineteenth-century European psychiatry see Davidson,
The Emergency of Sexuality,
esp. chapters 1 and 2. Classical Arabic has terms for the desire for intercourse (
shahwat al-wiqā‘
) and for sexual prowess (
bāh
)
,
but not for “sexuality.”
On the formation of the concept of “sexuality” in late nineteenth-century European psychiatry see Davidson,
The Emergency of Sexuality,
esp. chapters 1 and 2. Classical Arabic has terms for the desire for intercourse (
shahwat al-wiqā‘
) and for sexual prowess (
bāh
)
,
but not for “sexuality.”
25
The point is also made in Massad, “Re-Orienting Desire,” 265.
The point is also made in Massad, “Re-Orienting Desire,” 265.
26
‘Aqqād,
Abū Nuwās,
36. I would like to thank Joseph Massad for drawing my attention to this work.
‘Aqqād,
Abū Nuwās,
36. I would like to thank Joseph Massad for drawing my attention to this work.
27
‘Aqqād,
Abū Nuwās
, 39.
‘Aqqād,
Abū Nuwās
, 39.
28
Tawīl,
al-Taṣawwuffī Miṣr,
157.
Tawīl,
al-Taṣawwuffī Miṣr,
157.
29
Naṣīr,
al-Kutub al-ʿarabiyyah al-latī nushirat fī Miṣr fī al-qarn al-tāsiʿ ʿ‘ashar, nos.
8 / 95-98; Naṣīr,
al-Kutub al-ʿarabiyyah al-latī nushirat fī Miṣr bayna āmay 1900-1925,
no. 8/ 1638; Naṣīr,
al-Kutub al-ʿarabiyyah al-latī nushirat bayna ‘āmay 1926-1940;
Manṣūr
, Dalīl almaṭbū‘āt al-miṣriyyah: 1940-1956.
Naṣīr,
al-Kutub al-ʿarabiyyah al-latī nushirat fī Miṣr fī al-qarn al-tāsiʿ ʿ‘ashar, nos.
8 / 95-98; Naṣīr,
al-Kutub al-ʿarabiyyah al-latī nushirat fī Miṣr bayna āmay 1900-1925,
no. 8/ 1638; Naṣīr,
al-Kutub al-ʿarabiyyah al-latī nushirat bayna ‘āmay 1926-1940;
Manṣūr
, Dalīl almaṭbū‘āt al-miṣriyyah: 1940-1956.
30
Baer, “Shirbīnī’s
Hazz al-quḥūf,”
26 and 31. In the same year, a heavily expurgated version of
Thamarāt al-awrāq,
by Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī (d. 1434), was published; see ‘Abd al-Nabī,
al-Mukhtār min kitāb Thamarāt al-awrāq.
Baer, “Shirbīnī’s
Hazz al-quḥūf,”
26 and 31. In the same year, a heavily expurgated version of
Thamarāt al-awrāq,
by Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī (d. 1434), was published; see ‘Abd al-Nabī,
al-Mukhtār min kitāb Thamarāt al-awrāq.
31
Bakkār,
Ittijāhāt al-ghazal.
Bakkār,
Ittijāhāt al-ghazal.
32
‘Adnānī,
al-Zinā wa al-shudhūdh.
‘Adnānī,
al-Zinā wa al-shudhūdh.
33
‘Adnānī,
al-Zinā wa al-shudhūdh,
126-29.
‘Adnānī,
al-Zinā wa al-shudhūdh,
126-29.
34
Trimingham,
The Sufi Orders in Islam,
246ff
Trimingham,
The Sufi Orders in Islam,
246ff
35
This is a recurrent theme in Schmitt and Sofer, eds.,
Sexuality and Eroticism among Males in Muslim Societies.
This is a recurrent theme in Schmitt and Sofer, eds.,
Sexuality and Eroticism among Males in Muslim Societies.
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