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Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World - Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature (Paperback)
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Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World - Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature (Paperback)
Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World
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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.
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