In this article we examine the use of aphrodisiacs in one of the most complete works written during the Islamic Middle Ages, namely The Elucidation of the Secrets of Lawful Intercourse by the Damascus writer al-Šayzarī (13th century). The main objective of this work is to connect the significant role played by culinary elements and sexual hygiene in Islamic society with the arts of love, collected in the Arab and Islamic erotic genre of ‘ilm al-bāh. This author provides a veritable compendium on the medical-amatory arts, compiling, ex profeso, a rich display of learning derived from previous and contemporary authors such as Galen, al-Ṭabarī, al-Rāzī, Avicenna al-Ṭūsī or al-Tīfāšī.En este artículo analizamos el uso de los afrodisíacos en una...
The aim of this essay is to show that the Zikhron ha-ḥolayim ha-hovim be-klei ha-herayon (An account...
The Almohad caliphs claimed that agnatically they belonged to the Arab tribe of Quraysh. Qays cAylān...
This article analyzes the Arabic texts and the specific semantics with which the edenic starts to be...
The Maliki jurist Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (d.520/1126) issued a fatwā regarding stoning as a punishment fo...
El objetivo de nuestro estudio es obtener un glosario erótico del Kitāb al-iḍāḥ fī asrār al-nikāḥ (E...
The aim of this paper is to bring into light the translation and commentary of the first chapter of ...
Medieval Arabic literature offers numerous examples of the survival of the Greco-Roman topos on the ...
New interpretations were brought forward by going again over the expression of human sexuality durin...
Se explora el tema de los estados en la literatura medieval española y en el Islam tardío español. U...
Resumen: Este estudio analiza un libro singular de Ibn ʿArabī que se aparta del leitmotiv central de...
Hair care and beautification are part of the tradition of all cultures. Men and women have been conc...
A spanish translation from Arabic of an article by the Libyan contemporary intellectual ‘Abd al a i...
The present study offers the presentation and analysis of poetry of the fourteenth century Grenadian...
La literatura arábiga medieval posee la singularidad de haber elaborado una teoría considerable sobr...
Appart from its frequent occurrences throughout the Qur’ānic text, the term Amr Allāh, or al-Amr whe...
The aim of this essay is to show that the Zikhron ha-ḥolayim ha-hovim be-klei ha-herayon (An account...
The Almohad caliphs claimed that agnatically they belonged to the Arab tribe of Quraysh. Qays cAylān...
This article analyzes the Arabic texts and the specific semantics with which the edenic starts to be...
The Maliki jurist Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (d.520/1126) issued a fatwā regarding stoning as a punishment fo...
El objetivo de nuestro estudio es obtener un glosario erótico del Kitāb al-iḍāḥ fī asrār al-nikāḥ (E...
The aim of this paper is to bring into light the translation and commentary of the first chapter of ...
Medieval Arabic literature offers numerous examples of the survival of the Greco-Roman topos on the ...
New interpretations were brought forward by going again over the expression of human sexuality durin...
Se explora el tema de los estados en la literatura medieval española y en el Islam tardío español. U...
Resumen: Este estudio analiza un libro singular de Ibn ʿArabī que se aparta del leitmotiv central de...
Hair care and beautification are part of the tradition of all cultures. Men and women have been conc...
A spanish translation from Arabic of an article by the Libyan contemporary intellectual ‘Abd al a i...
The present study offers the presentation and analysis of poetry of the fourteenth century Grenadian...
La literatura arábiga medieval posee la singularidad de haber elaborado una teoría considerable sobr...
Appart from its frequent occurrences throughout the Qur’ānic text, the term Amr Allāh, or al-Amr whe...
The aim of this essay is to show that the Zikhron ha-ḥolayim ha-hovim be-klei ha-herayon (An account...
The Almohad caliphs claimed that agnatically they belonged to the Arab tribe of Quraysh. Qays cAylān...
This article analyzes the Arabic texts and the specific semantics with which the edenic starts to be...