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Close Relationships: Incest and Inbreeding in Classical Arabic Literature

Close Relationships: Incest and Inbreeding in Classical Arabic Literature

Gelder, Geert Jan Van

Hardcover

Series: Library of Middle East History

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1850438552
ISBN13: 9781850438557
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 1 2005
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.46
Language: English
Close Relationships is Geert Jan van Gelder's 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. The pre-Islamic Arabs knew about the dangers of inbreeding; the Qur'an formulates the basic principles of marriage impediments in Islam, which were elaborated by generations of jurists. 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.

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