HISTORY 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Early Modern Europe, Late Antiquity, Hashish
22 Mar 2017
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History 327 lecture 16 mystic friendship. Unit 2: love and desire: how can we imagine a sexual world before sexual identities, language of love and kinship, how might we conceptualize different systems of sexual desire and practice, friendship. Beauty and the divine: ahmad al-ghazali (d. 1126) Ideal beauty: a male youth on the verge of puberty: practice of gazing on youths and beautiful faces: to adore the object of. Beauty is to participate in the divine act of love : divinely gifted by god, appreciating god"s beautiful creation, 12th century baghdad sufism, love = ishq, beloved god, ravisher of hearts, beloved friend, beloved youth. Friendship: sworn friendships: 16th century isfahan, handshake exchange of vows, equality, social status not as much as a hierarchy as between the lover and the beloved, breaks with social order of ageism and classism. Summary: mystic (sufi) love and romantic love, friendship (sworn brothers, erotic desire/sexual desire, experience and practice.
