Eros and sexuality in Islamic art / edited by Francesca Leoni and Mika Natif.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Eros and sexuality in Islamic art: old issues and new perspectives / Francesca Leoni and Mika Natif -- Making love not war: the iconography of the cockfight in medieval Egypt / Fahmida Suleman -- The generative garden: sensuality, man love, and eternity in Govardhan's illustration of Saʻdi's Gulistān / Mika Natif -- Where have all the boys gone? the lady of the'sala de justicia' ceilings and Nasrid poetics of sacred and profane love / Cynthia Robinson -- Visibly foreign, visibly female: the eroticization of the Zan-I Farangi in seventeenth-century Persian painting / Amy S. Landau -- Frontiers of visual taboos: painted indecencies in Isfahan / Sussan Babaie -- Ottomanizing pornotopia: changing visual codes in eighteenth-century Ottoman erotic miniatures / Tülay Artan and Irvin C. Schick --'Not to toil in lonely obsession': modern Persian erotica in the Kinsey Institute -- Christiane J. Gruber.