Codes of emotion in ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad: Slave concubines in literature and life-writing
Much Arabic writing in ninth- and tenth-century Iraq, the cultural hub of the Islamic empire, centres on the emotions. It is tempting to take it as evidence, either direct and documentary or passive, for lived emotions, and to forget that it is shaped by imagination and argument, the more so as the...
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Edinburgh University Press
2019
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