Arabic erotic literature has a long and rich history, which goes back as far as the ninth century. Far from being the pursuit of prurient pornographers, eroticism and sexuality received considerable attention from scholars.
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 70121
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages.
- Publisher
- Saqi Books
- ISBN
- 9780863567476
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This scholarly edition, translation and study of a classical text is the result of extensive research in libraries across North Africa and the Middle East. The critical edition of the known manuscripts of the text is accompanied by an extensive critical apparatus based on a large number of sources, many of which are available only in manuscript, in a variety of languages. The work also contains an eighty-page introduction, a comprehensive survey of manuscripts of Arabic erotic literature, and multiple indexes.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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