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By Mario Mieli

Cultural experiences, sexual reports, Social stories, Homosexuality

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Was usually thought to involve a man and a boy, and it thus tended to be associated, at least in the popular imagination, with social contexts in which the mixing of generations was especially marked. This is not to say that liwa¯t. was, or was believed to be, confined to such contexts. The generations were not segregated in the way the genders were, and the opportunities for pederastic courtship were correspondingly diffuse. However, it seems clear that certain social environments were thought to be especially suspect (or promising) precisely to the extent that, in them, the mixing of men and boys was particularly intense, or could occur hidden from the public eye.

118 It is possible that related ideas circulated in some circles in the Arab East in the early Ottoman period. Writing in Egypt in the 1830s, E. W. a¯wi ah, which flouted them. For example, the prominent Palestinian jurist Khayr al-Dı¯n al-Ramlı¯ (d. 121 On the other hand, several Sufi writers of the period were themselves eager to warn their fellows against the dangers posed by regular mixing with boys. The Egyptian Sufi Abd al-Wahha¯b al-Sha ra¯nı¯ (d. 1565), for example, quoted his own mentor as warning disciples against frequenting beardless boys or sharing cells in a convent (za¯wiyah) with them “as much as possible,” and to avoid looking at them when participating in the communal rites of the order.

55 That this was not only the attitude of puritanical scholars is clear from the way the biographer H . asan al-Bu¯rı¯nı¯ (d. 1615) relates the following incident in his entry on the Damascene scholar Isma¯ ¯ı l al-Na¯bulusı¯ (d. 1585): He was falsely suspected of [an affair with] a boy . . and the religious scholars ( ulama¯ ) supported him in this ugly affair but he encountered during that pederasts and pat hics 23 time extreme coldness from both elite and commoners, and this was because the boy went up to the hall of the governor .

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