Sash on the Benefits of Marriage, livre ebook

Al-Wishāḥ fī Fawāʾid al-Nikāḥ (Sash on the Benefits of Marriage) What did classical Muslim scholars really say about sex, desire, marriage, and pleasure? More than you might imagine. Al-Wishāḥ fī Fawāʾid al-Nikāḥ is a remarkable work that brings together Qur’an, hadith, Islamic law, medicine, Arabic linguistics, poetry, history, and spirituality in an extraordinarily candid exploration of human intimacy. Its pages preserve more than 2,400 Arabic expressions for the body, desire, intercourse, pleasure, and its many nuances, alongside erotic poetry, stories from caliphal courts and Bedouin society, medical observations, legal discussions, and—remarkably—the voices of women speaking openly about marriage and desire. Yet beneath its frankness lies a deeper vision on marital intimacy as part of the human experience of faith, pleasure, and even worship. Fascinating, surprising, and unlike almost anything in modern Islamic literature, Sash on the Benefits of Marriage offers a rare glimpse into how the classical Muslim world understood love, desire, the body, marriage, and the sacred. This book was undertaken as a companion to two of our previous translations of Al-Suyūṭī's works: 1. Al-Yawāqīt al-Thaminah fī Ṣifat al-Samīnah (Precious Gems in the Qualities of the Fat Woman) 2. Shagã'iq al-Utrunj fi Raqã'iq al-Ghunj (Halves of the Lemon Regarding the Intricacies of Coquetry) Together, these three volume offer a comprehensive vision of Al-Suyūṭī's thought on marriage, beauty, and intimacy. They reveal a scholar who was unafraid to address the most intimate aspects of human experience, who grounded his discussions in the Qur'an and Sunna, and who celebrated the diversity of human bodies and desires as gifts from the Creator.