Organizing, Presenting, and Reading Sexual Knowledge: The Abbasid Context of Jawāmiʿ al-ladhdha

Abstract The oldest surviving erotic manual in Arabic, Jawāmiʿ al-ladhdha , is characterised by a mix of medical and technical advice, interspersed with entertaining stories, hadith, poetry and historical anecdotes. In this article, I survey the organization of information in Jawāmiʿ al-ladhdha and...

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Main Author: Myrne, Pernilla (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2020
In: Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 182-206
Further subjects:B Medicine
B Encyclopaedias
B ʿilm al-bāh
B erotic literature
B Sexuality
B Buyids
B Adab
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