Research Catalog

Title

The delight of hearts, or, What you will not find in any book / Ahmad al-Tifashi ; English version edited by Winston Leyland ; English translation by Edward A. Lacey from the unabridged French translation of René R. Khawam, based on the original Arabic manuscipts.

Author

Tīfāshī, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf, -1253 or 4.

Publication

San Francisco : Gay Sunshine Press, 1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leyland, Winston, 1940-
• Lacey, E. A. (Edward A.), 1938-
• Khawam, René R.
• Gay Sunshine Press.

Description

234 p. : 2 ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

• Delight of hearts.
• What you will not find in any book.
• Délices des coeurs.

Subject

• Gay men > Arab countries > Anecdotes
• Gay men > Arab countries > Poetry
• Erotic literature, Arabic

Note

• Translation of: Nuzhat al-albāb fīmā lā yūjadu fī kitāb.
• "A translation of chapters 5, 6, 8, 9, and 12 of Les Délices des Coeurs by Ahmad al-Tîfâchi, in the French translation of M. René R, Khawam; a few miscellaneous gay anecdotes from other chapters; and a translation of the Author's Preface and the French translator's introduction"--T.p. verso.

Call Number

*OFA 92-14206

ISBN

• 0940567083 (limited cloth ed.)
• 0940567091 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 21722396
• NYPG93-B11821

Author

Tīfāshī, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf, -1253 or 4.

Title

The delight of hearts, or, What you will not find in any book / Ahmad al-Tifashi ; English version edited by Winston Leyland ; English translation by Edward A. Lacey from the unabridged French translation of René R. Khawam, based on the original Arabic manuscipts.

Imprint

San Francisco : Gay Sunshine Press, 1988.

Edition

1st English ed.

Added Author

Leyland, Winston, 1940-

Lacey, E. A. (Edward A.), 1938-

Khawam, René R.

Gay Sunshine Press.

Added Title

Delight of hearts.

What you will not find in any book.

Délices des coeurs.

Research Call Number

*OFA 92-14206 (Locked cage)