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Abbott, Nabia
Abd al-Rahman II
Abelard, Peter
Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani
Abu Nuwas
accollee
adab
adab al-jins `inda al-`Arab
Adam, William
adultery
Alain de Lille
al-Andalus
Albertus Magnus
Aleppo Publishing
Alf layla wa layla. See One Thousand and One Nights; The Story of Qamar al-Zaman and the Princess Boudour
al-Jahiz
al-Jurjani, Abu al-Abbas Ahmad b. Muhammad
al-Kindi
al-Malik al-Salih Ayyub
al-Ma’mun
al-Muntakhab min kinayat al-udaba’ wa isharat al-bulagha’. See An Anthology of Metonymic Devices Used by the Literati and Allusions in Eloquent Speech (al-Jurjani)
al-Nadim, Abu al-Faraj
al-Qurti
al-Raghib al-Isfahani, Abu al-Qasim al-Husayn Ibn Muhammad
al-shudhudh al-jinsi
al-Suyuti, Jalal al-Din
alternative sexualities, Arabic tolerance of
al-Tifashi, Ahmad Ibn Yusuf: The Delight of Hearts
and Etienne’s use of eu
The Return of the Sheikh to His Youth Through Vigor and Coition
al-Zarqa’. See Hind Bint al-Khuss al-Iyadiyyah
ambiguity in homoerotic writings
Ambrose, Saint
Amer, Ghada
amie
amor de lonh
De amore. See The Art of Courtly Love
Anastasius, bishop of Antioch
ancele
Andreas Capellanus
animal spouses
Anselm, Saint
An Anthology of Metonymic Devices Used by the Literati and Allusions in Eloquent Speech (al-Jurjani)
Antioch
Apparel of Women (Tertullian)
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
Arabian Nights. See One Thousand and One Nights
Arabic, as language of the obscene
Arabic Book Press
Arabic erotic literature
accessing
current suppression of
explicitness in
first lesbian couple in
influence of
literary history of
military metaphors in
multiple genres in
patrons’ respect for
positive valuation of eroticism in
Arabic literature: and cross-cultural exchanges
erotic (see Arabic erotic literature)
female cross-dressers in
folk romances
ghulamiyyat tradition in
intertextuality of Old French writing and
name “Moon” in
romances
translations of
transmission of. See also specific writings
Arabic sciences
Arab Islamicate world: and Aelis’ social standing
cross-dressed women in (see also ghulamiyyat)
harems
homosexual refinement in
interaction with Western Europe
medieval France’s ties with
modes of resistance in
qaynas
reading through sociocultural traditions
respect for writings on alternative sexuality
role of women in
same-sex desire among women in
slave girls vs. freeborn women in
slave-singers in
zarf
Arethas
`Arib
Aristotle
The Art of Courtly Love (Andreas Capellanus)
associations of lesbians
atache
Augustine, Saint
aumosniere
autel
al-Washsha’
baisie
Bakhtin, Mikhail
barbers
battle metaphors
Baumgartner, Emmanuèle
bed. See lis, couche
belletristic tradition. See also adab
Bencheikh, Jamal Eddine
Bennett, Judith M.
Bernard de Clairvaux
Bhabha, Homi
bidal
Bieris de Romans
bigha’
bisexuality, lack of Arabic word for
Boasting Match over Maids and Youths (al-Jahiz)
Book of Gomorrah (Peter Damian)
Book of Refinement and of Refined People (al-Washsha’)
Book of Songs (al-Isfahani)
Book of the Flower (Ibn Da’ud)
Book on Lesbians (al-Saymari)
bougrerie
Brooten, Bernadette J.
Brown, Judith
Burger, Glenn
Burns, Jane
Burton, Sir Richard
businesses: embroidery
hairwashing
and prostitution
social independence and
Butler, Judith
çainturiere
capital punishment. See death penalty
caressing. See also touching
Castle, Terry
castration
The Catalog (al-Nadim)
censorship
chansons de toile
Chauncey, George, Jr.
chess
Chrétien de Troyes
Christians: seductive power of homosexuality over
sexuality of Muslims vs.
Chrysostom, Saint John
church literature on marriage
subversion of this literature
clandestine prostitution
Clark, Robert L. A.
clash of civilizations
Cligès (Chrétien de Troyes)
clothing: to conceal social nakedness
as marker of social class
and prostitution. See also cross-dressing
conquiert
consciousness, identity vs.
Constable, Olivia Remie
constructionism
contact zone
couche
courtliness. See zarf
courtly love: in Escoufle
heterosexual model of
joining of hands in
and lesbian ghosting
and mal-mariée in Escoufle
as model for homosexual desire
and sewing
in Yde and Olive stories
Courtly Love Undressed (Burns)
Croissant
as name and Arabic intertextuality
cross-cultural interactions/exchanges
cross-cultural research
ethics of
implications of
value of
cross-dressing
absence of, in Escoufle
as agent of destabilization and change
among Saracens
church’s toleration of
evidence of
and female homoeroticism
and female same-sex marriage
in French romances and plays
and intertextuality of Yde/Olive and Story of Qamar al-Zaman
and medieval gender categories
as narrative strategy
and questioning of gender roles
reasons for
and same-sex marriage between women
and second-degree homosexuality
“social”
in Story of Qamar al-Zaman
as textual strategy in fabliaux
in Yde and Olive stories. See ghulamiyyat
Crusades
cultural traditions, Arabic influences on
cultural transmission, fragmentation of
dakhala
Dale, Marian K.
death penalty (capital punishment): for bougrerie
for lesbians
deduit
The Delight of Hearts Or, What One Cannot Find in Any Book (al-Tifashi)
censorship of
differences between Livre des manières and
on homosexual refinement
military metaphors in
versions of
delit
desmenbré
devotional texts
Dhat al-Himma
Diller, G.
Dinshaw, Carolyn
Disciplina Clericalis (Petrus Alfonsi)
droiture
Edwardes, Allen
embroidery
as empowering women
and sexuality
embroidery business
condemnation of
financial prosperity from
and prostitution
Encyclopedia of Pleasure (Ibn Nasr al-Katib)
Arabic edition of
intertextuality of Livre des manières and
kissing defined in
on male homosexuality
name of first lesbian
story of first lesbian couple
The Encyclopedia of Pleasure (sculpture)
England
en liu de
Epistle on Singing-Girls (al-Jahiz)
Erec et Enide (Chrétien de Troyes)
eroticism. See Arabic erotic literature; homoeroticism
The Erotic Writings of the Arabs series
errors, scribal
escoer
Escoufle (Jean Renart)
adaptation of Arab tales in
Aelis and Countess of Saint-Gilles in
Aelis and Saint-Gilles household in
Aelis’s friendship with Lady of Montpellier in
Aelis’s friendship with Ysabel in
Arabic intertextuality of
crusader ideology supported by
and harems
intertextuality of Story of Qamar al-Zaman and
Montpellier business in
parallels between Arabic and French dwellings
prostitution in
role of silk in
social identity in
estate literature (France)
L’Estoire de Merlin
estraint
états du monde. See estate literature (France)
ethics of cross-cultural research
Etienne Boileau
Etienne de Bourbon
Etienne de Fougères: ambiguous metaphors of
Livre des manières
eu
euphemisms, Arabic
European sciences, influence of Arabic sciences on
fabliaux
Fadl
Farmer, Sharon
female couples, archaeological figuration of
female empowerment
female friendships. See also friendship
female homoeroticism: cross-dressing and expression of
incest and
and religious expression
and spirituality
female homosexuality, terms for. See terminology for lesbianism
female mystics
female same-sex sexuality activity. See lesbian sexual intimacy
feme
feminizing Christ’s body
feminocentric
Fihrist. See The Catalog
Floire et Blancheflor
Floris et Lyriopé (Robert de Blois)
Forgotten Queens of Islam (Mernissi)
Foucault, Michel
fourmie
Frederick II
French law code
French literature. See Old French literature
French romances. See also specific writings
fricatrices
friendship: equality of partners in
in Escoufle
female
gifts as tokens of
joining hands as indicator of
lesbianism under guise of
fruit metaphors
funduks (fondoco)
Galen
Galeran de Bretagne (Renaut)
Garber, Marjorie
Gay Sunshine Press
gender: association with body vs. spirit
linked to social status
medical view of
presumed preference for masculinity
gender identity, social identity vs.
gender roles: questioning of
in Story of Qamar al-Zaman
in Yde and Olive stories
genitalizing Christ’s wound
Germain Colladon
ghayriyyah
ghosting, lesbian
ghulamiyyat. See also cross-dressing
gift exchange: circulation of gifts
lesbianism and
medieval functions of
and model of feudal relations
as token of friendship
Gilles d’Orléans
gold embroidery
grammatical gender instability. See also linguistic (grammatical) confusion
Gravdal, Kathryn
Gregory Lopez
Guibert de Tournai
Guilhem VIII
Guthrie, Jeri
haba’ib
hagiographic literature
hairwashing business
hall al-izaar
Halperin, David
Hamduna
Hamza al-Bahlawan
Hanafi school (Islam)
harems
Eurocentric representations of
lesbianism and culture of
Western assumption of homosexuality in
harem (term)
Henry II Plantagenêt
Hereford, Countess of
Hereford Cathedral
Herman, Gerald
heteronormativity: in Escoufle
in Yde and Olive stories
heterosexuality:
Arabic term for
constraints of
conventional paradigms of
Escoufle same-sex bonds modeled on
homosexuality within
and lesbian ghosting
presumed in marital unions
heterosexual violence
Hincmar of Reims
Hind Bint al-Khuss al-Iyadiyyah (al-Zarqa’)
parallel with Yde
Hind Bint al-Nu`man
History of Sexuality (Foucault)
Hodgson, Marshall G. S.
homes, Arabic and French
homoeroticism: Arabic narratives of
in Arabic poetry
cross-dressing and expression of
incest and
name “Moon” designating
and female mystics
homosexuality: Arabic conventions on
Arabic terms for
in Arabic tradition
in Arabic writings
association of Islam and
and distinction between desire and acts
within heterosexuality
Islam and punishments for
legal Islamic view of
as major sin in Islam
medical view of
in Muslim societies
origin in Arab world
positive Arabic valuation of
refinement of
religious views of
scientific view of
Western ideas about. See also lesbianism; male homosexuality, terminology for homosexuality, terminology for lesbianism
horizontal reading
Hrostvit of Gandersheim
Hubsiyya
Hue d’Oisy
hugging
hulaq
humanism
Humbert de Romans
Huntington, Samuel
Huon de Bordeaux (La Chanson d’Yde et Olive). See also Yde and Olive stories
hybrid textuality
Iberian peninsula
Ibn al-Washsha’, Mohammed
Ibn Da’ud al-Isfahani
Ibn Falita, Ahmad Ibn Mohammad
Ibn Hazm
Ibn Kamal Pasha
Ibn Maawayh, Yuhanna (John Mesué)
Ibn Nasr al-Katib, Abul Hasan Ali
Ibn Zaydun
identity: distinction between consciousness and
gender vs. social
sexual
social (see social identity)
ijara
`Inan
incest, female homoeroticism and
An Intelligent Man’s Guide to the Art of Coition (Ibn Falita)
intercultural connections
intertextuality:
of Arabic and Old French literature
of Escoufle and Arabic literature
linguistic (see linguistic intertextuality)
of Livre des manières
multiple manifestations of
of Story of Qamar al-Zaman and Escoufle
of Yde and Olive stories
intimacy between women. See also lesbian sexual intimacy
Iphis and Ianthe (Ovid): intertextuality with Yde and Olive stories
Iran
Islam: adultery in
association of homosexuality and
description of Paradise in
erotic expression in writings of
positive view of sexuality in
as religion that promotes sodomy
social and cultural influences of (see Arab Islamicate world)
and transvestites
Islamicate. See also Arab Islamicate world
Italy
Jarkas, Adnan
Jawami` al-ladhdha. See Encyclopedia of Pleasure
jawari
Jean de Meun
Jean Gerson
Jean Renart: Escoufle
Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole
Jerome, Saint
jesir
The Jewel in the Lotus (Edwardes)
jild
jins
Joan of Arc
John Mesué
joiaus
joie
joining hands
joust metaphor
Karras, Ruth Mazo
Kennedy, Ruth
Khawwam, Salah Addin
Kinoshita, Sharon
kissing
erotic connotations of
in Escoufle
and heterosexual violence
and intertextuality of Yde/Olive and Story of Qamar al-Zaman
as defined in Encyclopedia of Pleasure
as key signifier of lesbian sexuality
in Yde and Olive story
Kitab al-aghani. See Book of Songs
Kitab al-muwashsha’. See Book of Refinement and of Refined People
Kitab al-sahaqat. See Book on Lesbians
Kitab al-zahra. See Book of the Flower
Kitab al-zarf wa al-zurafa’. See Book of Refinement and of Refined People
Kitab moufakharati al-jawari wa al-ghilman. See Boasting Match over Maids and Youths
kite. See also Escoufle
Klosowska, Anna
Kowaleski, Maryanne
Kristeva, Julia
Krueger, Roberta
Kruger, Steven
kutub al-bah. See also mujun
Lacey, Edward A.
lait (lei)
lance
Lancelot (Chretien de Troyes)
Langlois, Charles-Victor
largesse
Latin
Latin Kingdoms of the East, founding of
law codes: and aberrant sexuality
and homosexuality
and lesbianism
and marriage
Spanish
Lectures by the Literati and Conversations in Poetry and Eloquent Speech (al-Raghib al-Isfahani)
Leo Africanus
lesbian continuum
lesbian ghosting
lesbianism: anachronistic views of
Arabic terms for
associations of
author’s use of term lesbian
cross-cultural approach to
death penalty for
definitional fluidity of
in early Christianity
early terms for
European attitudes toward
of female mystics
in female mystics’ writings
first Arab lesbian couple
ghosting
in Greek period
under guise of friendship
and harem culture
and history of women’s struggles for independence
as inborn state
Islamic penalties for
lack of commonly accepted terms for
legal views of
lesbian-like
medical views of
and medieval cultural interaction
in medieval Islamicate world
medieval scholarly neglect of
positive Arabic valuation of
punishment
and prostitution
scholarship on
scientific view of
silence about
as “the silent sin”
terms for female homosexuality
theological views of
as transgression of social lines
use of term
in writings of mystics. See terminology for lesbianism
lesbian sexual intimacy: in Escoufle
and intertextuality of Yde/Olive and Story of Qamar al-Zaman
in Story of Qamar al-Zaman
in Yde and Olive stories
linguistic (grammatical) confusion: due to lack of commonly accepted terms
in Escoufle
in One Thousand and One Nights
in Yde and Olive stories. See also grammatical gender instability
linguistic intertextuality
in Escoufle
of Livre des manières and Arabic literature
of Story of Qamar al-Zaman and Yde/Olive stories
linguistic transformation, in Yde and Olive stories
lis
literary salons
literary traditions, Arabic influences on
literary transmission, fragmentation of
Livre des manières (Etienne de Fougères)
Arabic intertexts for
example of contact zone between cultures
cross-cultural differences between The Delight of Hearts and
linguistic resonance with Arabic eroticism
military metaphors in
stanzas depicting lesbian in
Livre des métiers (Etienne Boileau)
liwat. See also male homosexuality
Lochrie, Karma
Lodge, Anthony
love poetry and correspondence
luti
luxury trade
ma’bun
MacKinnon, Catharine
majlis
Makhul
male homosexuality: in European Middle Ages
medical view of
refinement of
religious views of
research on
scientific view of
Western Christian view of. See also liwat; terminology for homosexuality
Maliki school (Islam)
mal-mariée
Mamluk period
Mardrus
Marie de Champagne
Marie de France
marriage: church literature on companionship in
church-sanctioned model of
in Escoufle
evolution in status of
gendered expectations of
in laws of Walter of Mortagne
legal age of
presumed heterosexuality of
right of slaves to
in Story of Qamar al-Zaman
between women (see same-sex marriage between women)
masculinity, presumed preference for
Maurice de Sully
medieval France: developing urban milieus of
same-sex desire among women in
Meecham-Jones, Simon
Meixner, Gabriele
men, as spirit
menbré
menestrel
meretrix
Mernissi, Fatima
meschine
metaphors
ambiguous
battle
erotic
of Etienne de Fougères
fruit
military
of unfastened robe. See terminology for homosexuality; terminology for lesbianism
military metaphors. See also escoer; eu; lance; shields; spear; sword metaphor; thigh-fencing; trutennes; war metaphor
Miracle de la fille d’un roy. See also Yde and Olive stories
miracle plays, cross-dressing in. See also Yde and Olive stories
Les Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages
mithliyyah
Mohanty, Chandra
monstrous spouses
“Moon” (as name)
Muhadarat al-udaba’ wa-muhawarat al-shu `ara’ wa-al-bulagha’. See Lectures by the Literati and Conversations in Poetry and Eloquent Speech
Muhammad, Prophet
mujun
mukhannath
Murray, Jacqueline
Murray, Stephen
musahaqat al-nisa’
musahiqat
Muslims: See Arab Islamicate world; Islam
mutazarrifat
muwasshahat
mystics: ambiguity in writings of
female
lesbianism in writings of
naming
of first Arabic lesbian couples
and intertextuality of Yde/Olive and Story of Qamar al-Zaman
of same-sex desire in Middle Ages
of same-sex love between women. See terminology for homosexuality; terminology for lesbianism
Natura (Alain de Lille)
nisa’ mutarajjilat
Nuzhat al-albab fima la yujad fi kitab. See The Delight of Hearts Or, What One Cannot Find in Any Book
obscenity
Old French language
Old French literature: Arabic intertextual resonances in
cross-cultural influences on
cross-cultural reading of
cross-dressing and same-sex marriage in
cross-dressing as “second-degree” homosexuality in
depiction of harems in
Etienne’s accounts of lesbianism
exclusion of lesbians in
linguistic detours in
military metaphors in
multicultural context for
and polyglossia
sign system of alternative sexualities in. See also specific writings
“Olive,” as name and motif
One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights): early written versions of
French adaptation of tales from
function of Scheherazade in
intertextuality of Escoufle and
lower levels of society in
name of “Moon” in
oral transmission of stories
The Story of Qamar al-Zaman and the Princess Boudour
storytelling and sexual pleasure linked in
tale of Nour
women warriors and Amazons in
orgasm, methods of speeding
Orient, transmission of stories to Europe from
Orientalism
ouvraigne
Ovid
Paul, Saint
pear, as sinful. See also fruit metaphors
penis: metaphor for
Yde’s miraculous receipt of
per
Perret, Michèle
Peter Damian
Petrus Alfonsi
Pierre Gentien
Pinault, David
plaire
Plato
plurilingualism
poetry: Arabic, homoeroticism in
love
polygamy
polyglossia
Pratt, Mary Louise
La Prise d’Orange
prostitution: and Aelis’s businesses
ambiguous attitude toward
clandestine
and clothing (embroidery)
criteria for definitions of
and hairwashing business
lesbianism and
and literary salon
single women and
Les Prouesses et faicts du trespreux noble et vaillant Huon de Bordeaux, pair de France et Due de Guyenne. See also Yde and Olive stories
punishments
for adultery and illegitimate sexual encounters
castration. See also death penalty
putains
Qamar
qatim
qaynas
Qissat Firuz Shah
Queering the Middle Ages (Burger and Kruger)
queer studies: developments in queer theory
distinction between desire and acts in
of Old French texts
Qur’an: description of Paradise in
zina in
Rangstreit. See also wasf tradition
readings of literature: cross-cultural
and developments in queer theory
Escoufle
French, through Arab sociocultural traditions
heteronormativity in
horizontal vs. vertical
and position in contact zone
queer
realistic romances
redactor (use of term)
Regnier-Bohler, Danielle
religious sentiments, expression of female homoeroticism in
residences, Arabic and French
The Return of the Sheikh to His Youth Through Vigor and Coition (al-Tifashi or al-Suyuti)
Reyerson, Kathryn
Rich, Adrienne
rijal mu’ annathin
The Ring of the Dove (Ibn Hazm)
Risalat al-qiyan. See Epistle on Singing-Girls
Robert de Blois
Roger II
Romance of `Antar
Romance of the Rose (Jean de Meun)
Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole (Jean Renart)
romances: Arabic
folk
French romances
realistic. See also specific writings
Roman de la poire (Tibaut)
Roman de Silence (Heldris de Cornualle)
Rosenthal, Franz
Rowson, Everett
rubbing
Ruju` al-Shaykh ila sibahi fi al-quwati `ala al-bahi. See The Return of the Sheikh to His Youth Through Vigor and Coition
Rushd al-labib ila mu `asharat al-habib. See An Intelligent Man’s Guide to the Art of Coition
sacrifice
“saffron massage”
sagement
sahhaqat. See also sahq; sahiqa; sihaq
sahiqa. See also sahq; sahhaqat; sihaq
sahq. See also sihaq; musahaqat al-nisa’; musahiqat
saints, transvestite. See also individual saints
same-sex desire/sexual practices among women. See lesbianism
same-sex marriage between women: and cross-dressing
models of
religious sentiments related to
wedding night
Saracens
Sautman, Francesca
Sawa, George Dimitri
Scheherazade
science
“second-degree” homosexuality
self-help books on sexual topics
sewing, association of loving and. See also chansons de toile; embroidery
sexual identity
sexuality: aberrant, legal definitions of
alternate, Arabic tolerance for
Arabic euphemisms for
in Arabic writings
association of tales with
bisexuality
of Christians vs. Muslims
embroidery and
at heart of Arabic religious piety
medieval French sign system of
in Qur’an
recognition of lesbianism as
religious views of
transsexuality. See also heterosexuality; homosexuality
sexual knowledge, female empowerment through
sexual minorities
Shahar, Shulamith
Shajarrat al-Durr
Sheingorn, Pamela
shields
Sicily
sight
sihaq. See also sahq; sahiqa; sahhaqat; musahaqat al-nisa’; musahiqat
Sihaq al nisa’ zinan baynahunna (Makhul)
silent sin
silk
silk purse (see aumosniere)
“sinful woman”
singing slave-girls. See qaynas
single women
prostitution and. See also lesbianism, lesbian-like
Sirat Sayf ben Dhi Yazan
social class: among prostitutes
clothing as marker of
and kissing
in Yde and Olive stories
social-constructionist view
social disruption
in Escoufle
in Yde and Olive stories
social identity: and Aelis’s business
gender identity vs.
and prostitution
and Saint-Gilles household
and sociocultural geographies
and zarf practice
social minorities
social status: and cross-dressing
gender linked to
and relationships in Escoufle
sociocultural geographies
sociocultural traditions, Arab
harems
homes
sodomy: bougrerie as
invention of category
and Islam
women in consideration of
Sotadic Zone
soulas
Spain: homoerotic literature in
Islamic caliphate in
zarf in. See also Wallada
spear
spirit, gender association with
Sponsler, Claire
srutennes
The Story of Qamar al-Zaman and the Princess Boudour
cross-dressing in
female empowerment through sexual knowledge in
French adaptation of
and homosexuality within heterosexuality
intertextuality of Escoufle and
lesbian sexual intimacy in
naming similarities with Yde and Olive
open depiction of lesbianism in
polygamy in
thematic echoes of Yde and Olive and
transmission of
versions of
wedding night in
storytelling
Stuard, Susan Mosher
Sulayman, Ahmad b.
Sunnah
Superiority of the Belly to the Back (al-Jahiz)
sword metaphor
Symposium (Plato)
Szkilnik, Michelle
ta`awwad-tu
tadahaku
Tafdil al-batn `ala al-zahr. See Superiority of the Belly to the Back
tafkhidh
Tauq al-hamama fl al-ulfa wa al-ullaf See The Ring of the Dove
Tawaddud
ta`zir
“Terminal Essay” (Burton)
terminology for homosexuality
Arabic
in Escoufle
female homosexuality
lesbianism. See liwat, luti
terminology for lesbianism. See accolle; amie; ancele; atache; baisie; çainturiere; conquiert; couche; deduit; delit; droiture; embroidery; estraint; feme; fruit metaphors; hairwashing; jesir; joie; joiaus; lis; military metaphors; per; plaire; pucele; sahq; soulas; storytelling
Tertullian
textiles
textual fragmentation
thigh-fencing
“third term”
“third world women”
hugging
monastic rules against
rubbing
in Story of Qamar al-Zaman
in Yde and Olive stories. See also accolle; baisie; couche; estraint; jesir; lis
Toul
Le Tournoi des dames (Hue d’Oisy)
Le Tournoiement as dames de Paris (Pierre Gentien)
trade
transmission of stories
controversy over
fragmented
transsexualism
transvestite saints
transvestism. See also cross-dressing
tribades
Tristan de Nanteuil
trutennes
“Twice Marginal and Twice Invisible” (Murray)
ubnah
Umayyads
“unfastened robe” metaphor (hall al-izaar)
van der Meer, Theo
vertical reading
vile affection
violence, heterosexual
vocabulary: explicitness of
for homosexuality (see terminology for homosexuality)
for lesbianism (see terminology for lesbianism)
polyglossia. See also interlinguistic resonances; and specific words or phrases
vulva, metaphor for
Wallada, Princess
war metaphor
wasf tradition
Watt, Diane
weaving
wedding night: in Story of Qamar al-Zaman
in Yde and Olive stories
Western Europe: Arab Islamicate interaction with
Eastern commodities in
transmission of stories from Orient to
women: as accidental deviation
Arab and Muslim
as body
brothels kept by
in development of zarf
in Etienne de Fougères’s work
joining hands of
and medicine
medieval system of sexual orders in
proper social role of
“sinful”
speeding orgasms of
terms used to speak about
“third world”
typical work of
without family/male protection, working. See also ancele; feme; pucele
“Women’s Tribadism Constitutes Fornication Between Them” (Makhul)
work, achieving happiness through
Yde and Olive stories: adaptation of Arab tales in
Arabic intertexts of
cross-dressing in
gender roles and sexual identities in
religious sentiments in
renditions of
restoration of heteronormativity in
wedding night in
“Yde” (as name)
zajal
zarf
zina
Ziryab
Zoe, Empress of Constantinople