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The Rude, the Bad

and the Bawdy


Essays in honour of
Professor Geert Jan van Gelder

edited by
Adam Talib, Marlé Hammond
and Arie Schippers

Gibb Memorial Trust


2014
Published by

The E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust

Trustees: G. van Gelder, R. Gleave, C. Hillenbrand, H. Kennedy,


C. P. Melville, J. E. Montgomery, C. Woodhead
Secretary to the Trustees: P. R. Bligh

© The E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust and the individual authors 2014

Paperback Edition ISBN 978-1-909724-33-4


Digital Edition 978-1-909724-34-1

A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library

Further details of the E. J. Gibb Memorial Trust and its publications


are available at the Trust’s website

www.gibbtrust.org

Printed in Great Britain by


Berforts Information Press
Contents

TABULA GRATULATORIA v

GEERT JAN VAN GELDER: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH vii

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS x

INTRODUCTION 1

1. , , 7
Wen-chin Ouyang

2. WHAT IS OBSCENE? OBSCENITY IN CLASSICAL ARABIC LITERATURE 13


Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila

3. A SUSPICION OF EXCESSIVE FRANKNESS 24


Pieter Smoor

‘ ’ WITH A PERSIAN ‘KHARJA’ 66


Gregor Schoeler

5. THE
Arie Schippers

6. THE
Nefeli Papoutsakis

7. LOVE AND : OPPOSITES AND PARALLELS 123


Monica Balda-Tillier

8.
Emily Selove

9. DIGNITY AT STAKE:

Thomas Bauer

10. LYRICS ON A FART 186


Ewald Wagner
iv Contents

198
Denis McAuley

12. LOVE OR LUST: SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HUMANS AND JINNS


IN THE AND
208
Richard van Leeuwen

13. THE OBSCENITY OF SEXUAL TORTURE 221


Roger Allen

14. MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF


SAME-SEX RAPE AS A CASE STUDY 230
Frédéric Lagrange

15. THE FOUL-MOUTHED : OBSCENITY AND AMPLIFICATION IN EARLY


WOMEN’S INVECTIVE 254
Marlé Hammond

16. A SAUDI ‘HOUSEWIFE’ GOES TO WAR: OR ‘THE EVIL FATWAS’ 266


Clive Holes

17. CARICATURE AND OBSCENITY IN POETRY AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN


WOMEN’S HIP HOP 276
Adam Talib

Jan Schmidt

GEERT JAN VAN GELDER: LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 311


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in the Thousand And One Nights


and the Nightingale’s Eye

Richard van Leeuwen


209
210 Richard van Leeuwen

Thousand and One Nights

Thousand and One


Nights

jinniyya

nafs

1
211

Thousand and One Nights

4
212 Richard van Leeuwen

The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

women in the

Thousand and One Nights

Thousand and One Nights in which

5
Thousand
and One Nights

The Thousand and One Nights


214 Richard van Leeuwen

10

10
215

Thousand and One Nights


Richard van Leeuwen

The similarities with the Thousand and One Nights


Nights

Thousand and One Nights

Thousand and One Nights

and women in the Thousand and One Nights

As in other stories of the Thousand and One Nights

Nights
Richard van Leeuwen

11

12

11

12
219

Thousand
and one Nights 14

of other stories from the Thousand and One Nights

the

14
220 Richard van Leeuwen

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