@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {1253},
      author = {Myrne, Pernilla},
      title = {Women and Men in al-Suyūṭī’s Guides to Sex and Marriage},
      publisher = {The Middle East Documentation Center (MEDOC)},
      journal = {Mamlūk Studies Review},
      address = {2018},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      pages = {47-67},
      abstract = {This article examines the sexual ethics in three works by  Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī on marital sex (nikāḥ) and gender  norms: Al-Wishāḥ fī fawāʾid al-nikāḥ, Shaqāʾiq al-utrunj fī  raqāʾiq al-ghunj, and Nuzhat al-mutaʾammil wa-murshid  al-mutaʾahhil. Wishāḥ is al-Suyūṭī’s main contribution to  the genre of Arabic-Islamic sex manuals, a genre that  originated in the fourth/tenth century in Baghdad, and was  influenced by translations of Greek, Persian, and Indian  medicine and erotology. In Wishāḥ, al-Suyūṭī attempts to  reconcile the earliest erotological tradition with the  Islamic sciences, something he does more consistently than  his predecessors. The result is an extensive investigation  of the sexual pleasures permitted for Muslims—particularly  men, but also, to a certain degree, women. Women’s sexual  behavior and obligations are treated by al-Suyūṭī in  Shaqāʾiq al-utrunj and Nuzhat al-mutaʾammil, which rely  partly on the same sources as Wishāḥ.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1253},
}