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La fisiognomía femenina a través del Manifiesto de los secretos del coito de al-Shayzarī (XIII)

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    Lucena Romero, Miguel Ángel
    Main Author:
    Lucena Romero, Miguel Ángel

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
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    text (article)
    Published:
    2021
    In:
    Fortunatae: Revista canaria de Filología ISSN 1131-6810 Nº 33, 1, 2021, pags. 161-172
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    In any theocratic and monotheistic system, the female image is represented as a sexual entity, reduced to its most material and physical dimension, avoiding any intellectual or psychological peculiarity. The objective of the following article is to describe and analyze the categorization, without any modesty, of women according to their sexual aptitude and, for this, we focus on the physiognomic text bequeathed by the Syrian writer al-Shayzarī (13th century) in his compendium sexual Kitāb al-Īḍāḥ fī asrār al-nikāḥ (Elucidation of the secrets of lawful intercourse). After a brief introduction to the Arabic and Islamic concept of physiognomy, we analyze the methodology that our author follows, namely, the expressive, ethnic and zoological method, when referring to female physiognomy


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