The Forbidden Passion: Mughulṭāy’s Book on the Martyrdom of Love and its Censorship
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https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2014.008Keywords:
Passionate love, Theory of profane love, Love treatises, Islam, Book censorship, Mamluk period, Ḥadīth al-ʽishqAbstract
Al-Wāḍiḥ al-mubīn fī ḏhikr man ustušhhida min al-muḥibbīn by Mughulṭāy (d. 762/1361) is the only love treatise whose reading was ever prohibited in the entire history of the genre. The reasons alleged in ancient sources are insufficient or not explicit enough on the reasons why Mughulṭāy’s book was burned in the public square and withdrawn from the book market in 14ᵗʰ-century Cairo. This article consists of an attempt to understand the reasons behind this prohibition.
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