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Lesbian Historic Motif Project: #102i Habib 2009 "From “Salwat Al-Ahzan lil Ijtinab ‘an Mujalasat al-Ahdath wal Niswan” by al-Mashtoolee (c. 1787)"


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Habib, Samar. 2009. Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality: 850-1780 A.D. Teneo Press, Youngstown. ISBN 978-1-934844-11-3

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This book makes a good companion volume to Habib's other works as it provides a comprehensive set of the texts she's working with. (The relevant parts of them, at least.) It also includes the text of two lectures that provide background and context for the texts themselves.

Historic Texts: From “Salwat Al-Ahzan lil Ijtinab ‘an Mujalasat al-Ahdath wal Niswan” by al-Mashtoolee (c. 1787)

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A list of religious quotations prohibiting grinding as fornication.

Prohibitions on effeminate men and masculine women.

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