Research Catalog

Title

Islamicate sexualities : translations across temporal geographies of desire / edited by Kathryn Babayan and Afsaneh Najmabadi ; with contributions by Dina Al-Kassim [and others].

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Babayan, Kathryn, 1960-
• Najmabadi, Afsaneh, 1946-
• Harvard University. Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Description

xiv, 376 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• "Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desires explores different genealogies of sexuality and questions of the theoretical emphases and epistemic assumptions affecting current histories of sexuality. Concerned with the dynamic interplay between cultural constructions of gender and sexuality, the anthology moves across disciplinary fields, integrating literary criticism with social and cultural history, and establishes a dialogue among historians (Kathryn Babayan, Frederic Lagrange, Afsaneh Najmabadi, and Everett Rowson), comparative literary scholars (Sahar Amer and Leyla Rouhi), and critical theorists of sexualities (Valerie Traub, Brad Epps, and Dina Al-Kassim).
• As a whole, the anthology challenges Middle Eastern Studies with questions that have arisen in recent studies of sexualities, bringing into conversation Euro-American scholarship of sexuality with that of scholars engaged in studies of sexualities across a vast cultural (Iberian, Arabic, and Iranian) and temporal field (from the tenth century to the medieval and modern)."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Harvard Middle Eastern monographs ; 39

Uniform Title

Harvard Middle Eastern monographs ; 39.

Subject

• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. > Criticism, Textual
• Cervantes y Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
• Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)
• Europa
• Geschichte
• Sexual orientation > Islamic countries > History > Cross-cultural studies
• Homosexuality > Islamic countries > History > Cross-cultural studies
• Homosexuality in literature
• Comparative literature > European and Arabic
• Comparative literature > Arabic and European
• Comparative literature > European and Persian
• Comparative literature > Persian and European
• Arabic literature > History and criticism
• Persian literature > History and criticism
• Literature, Medieval > Islamic influences
• Same-sex marriage in literature
• Orientation sexuelle > Pays musulmans > Histoire > Études transculturelles
• Homosexualité > Pays musulmans > Histoire > Études transculturelles
• Homosexualité dans la littérature
• Littérature arabe > Histoire et critique
• Littérature persane > Histoire et critique
• Littérature médiévale > Influence islamique
• Homosexuels > Mariage, dans la littérature
• 11.84 Islam: other
• Sexual orientation
• Arabic literature
• Homosexuality
• Homosexuality in literature
• Persian literature
• Same-sex marriage in literature
• Homosexualität Motiv
• Homosexualität
• Islam
• Literatur
• Homosexualitet > Islamiska länder
• Homosexualitet i litteraturen
• Litteratur > historia > islamiska influenser > medeltiden
• Islamic countries
• Naher Osten

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Cross-cultural studies
• History

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-363) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780674032040
• 0674032047

LCCN

2008007240

OCLC

• 212014544
• SCSB-12378788

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library