The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures: The Culture of Love and Languishing

Cover
Author bio
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Dangerous Love
	1 Writing to the End of Love: Waḥīd and the Motif Extremes of Ibn al-Rūmī
		Abstract
		Introduction
		I. The Philological Measures of Love
		II. The Painful Grammar of a World That Rhymes with Her Name
		III. Grammatically in Love
		IV. Ghazal: The Mode Immortal
		Notes
		Bibliography
	2 Sexual Displacement in Season of Migration to the North
		Abstract
		Introduction
		Displaced Sexuality
		Sexualizing the Orient
		Rewriting Sexuality
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	3 The Seduction of Fayrūz Baḥrī
		The Seduction of the Lūṭī: Between Panic and Pleasure
		The Seduction of the Reader
		The Seduction of Fārūq Ḥusnī: From Engagement to Engouement
		Notes
		Bibliography
Divine Love
	4 Satan as the Lover of God in Islamic Mystical Writings
		Sympathy with Satan as a Lover
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	5 Reverence for the Beloved as a Religious Metaphor
		Ḥubbā as a Metaphor for a Female Deity or Kaʿba
		Ḥubbā as a Metaphor for the Female Divine in Islamic Mysticism
		Notes
		Bibliography
Gender and Love
	6 Individualism and the Beloved in the Poetry of Furūgh Farrukhzād
		Notes
		Bibliography
	7 Making Love through Scholarship in Jamīl Buthayna
		Poem 27
		Notes
		Bibliography
	8 Jahān Malik Khātūn: Gender, Canon, and Persona in the Poems of a Premodern Persian Princess
		Who and Where Is the Beloved?
		The Quest for Extratextual Reality
		Poetry as a Fictitious Transfiguration
		The Poetic Masks of the Author
		Gender Trouble
		The World: An Attempt of Ambiguous Refeminization
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Erotic Love
	9 Pleasing the Beloved: Sex and True Love in a Medieval Arabic Erotic Compendium
		Love and the Beloved in Early Arabic Literature
		The Encyclopedia of Pleasure and the Nature of Love
		Encyclopedia of Pleasure: A Sexual Ethic for the Elite
		The Beloved in the Encyclopedia of Pleasure
		The Lover’s Duty
		Concluding Remarks
		Notes
		Bibliography
	10 Love and Lust in the Early Islamic Republic: Amir Hassan Cheheltan’s
		Notes
		Bibliography
	11 Tempting the Theologian: The “Cure” of Wine’s Seduction
		The Reading
		Erotic Antidote: More Wine!
		The Ecstasy of Wine
		From the Lips of the Grail: Figures of Seduction
		Unbearable Lightness
		The Abode of Wine
		More than You Know
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Dialectical Love
	12 Lovers in the Age of the Beloveds: Classical Ottoman Divan Literature and the Dialectical Tradition
		Introduction
		Debates on Philosophy and Literature
		Dialectical Discourse in Ottoman Divan Love Poetry
		Analysis of the Dialectical Discourse in Poems
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	13 The Semantic Field of Love in Classical Arabic: Understanding the Subconscious Meaning Preserved in the Ḥubb Synonyms and Antonyms through Their Etymologies
		1. Introduction
		2. The Root ḥ-b-b and the Underlying Coherence of Its Different Usages
		3. The Derivational Variety of Love, \'ḥubb\'
		Ism al-Mafʿūl (Passive Participle) – Ism al-Fāʿil (Active Participle) – Verb
		4. The Synonyms of “Love”
		5. The Antonyms of “Love”
		Notes
		Bibliography
Appendix I
	Notes
Appendix II
	Persian texts
Appendix III
Index