Eros and sexuality in Islamic art / edited by Francesca Leoni and Mika Natif.

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Other Authors: Leoni, Francesca, 1974- (Editor), Natif, Mika (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Eros and Sexuality in Islamic art: Old issues and new perspectives / Francesca Leoni and Mika Natif
  • Making love not war: The iconography of the cockfight in medieval Egypt / Fahmida Suleman
  • The generative garden: Sensuality, male intimacy, and eternity in Govardhan's illustration of Saʻdī's Gulistān / Mika Natif
  • Where have all the boys gone? The Lady of the 'Sala de Justicia' ceilings and Nasrid poetics of sacred and profane love / Cynthia Robinson
  • Visibly foreign, visibly female: The eroticization of the zan-i farangī in seventeenth-century Persian painting / Amy S. Landau
  • Frontiers of visual taboos: Painted indecencies in Isfahan / Sussan Babaie
  • Ottomanizing pornotopia: Changing visual codes in eighteenth-century Ottoman erotic miniatures / Tülay Artan and İrvin Cemil Schick
  • 'To not toil in lonely obsession': Modern Persian erotica in the Kinsey Institute / Christiane J. Gruber.