CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS: INCEST AND INBREEDING IN CLASSICAL ARABIC LITERATURE

VAN GELDER, Geert Jan

ISBN 10: 1850438552 ISBN 13: 9781850438557

Published by I.b. Tauris & Co., London & New York, 2005

Language: English

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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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CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS: INCEST AND INBREEDING IN CLASSICAL ARABIC LITERATURE

Publisher

I.b. Tauris & Co., London & New York

Publication Date

2005

Language

English

ISBN 10

1850438552

ISBN 13

9781850438557

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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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.

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

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