CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS: INCEST AND INBREEDING IN CLASSICAL ARABIC LITERATURE

VAN GELDER, Geert Jan

ISBN 10: 1850438552 / ISBN 13: 9781850438557

Editore: I.b. Tauris & Co., London & New York, 2005

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8vo. pp viii, [iii], 278. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's blue boards lettered in silver at spine.ISBN: 1850438552 Near fine, with small bump at top of spine. In very good dust jacket with a little surface rubbing and slight indentation at front.

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• Titolo: CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS: INCEST AND INBREEDING IN CLASSICAL ARABIC LITERATURE
• Editore: I.b. Tauris & Co., London & New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1850438552
• ISBN 13: 9781850438557
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta

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Riassunto

This is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the diverse facts and opinions concerning incest and close-kin marriage found in literary and non-literary pre-modern Arabic texts. Incest is a motif found in lampoons, anecdotes, stories, legends, dream interpretation, and polemics with other religions, in particular the Zoroastrians, who in pre-Islamic times allegedly recommended next-of-kin marriage. Many of the relevant passages are presented as English translations in this richly documented book that will be of interest to philologists and students of Arabic literature or Islamic culture.

Informazioni sull?autore

Geert Jan van Gelder is Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford.