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Arab Sex Art
Posted by: adonis49 on: June 14, 2009
Arab Sex Art: Star of the Internet (June 14, 2009)
In her Preface of “Love in the Moslem Countries“ Fatema Mernissi wrote:
“My editor wanted to publish an investigation on love in the Moslem countries that I had written 20 years ago and that I had published in the magazine ” Jeune Afrique” (Young Africa). I told my editor that no one is interested to read Ibn Hazm (an expert on sex and seduction during the Arab Andalusia period around the year 1000).
My academic friend that I had invited for lunch to extract information from said to me: “You are disconnected of the digital galaxy. The translated book of Ibn Hazm is the best seller on the internet.”
Fatema felt a surge of anger: her male friend was only 7 years younger; then how come he is connected and I am so far beyond in technology?
Fatema learned that the search engine of Google had mentioned Ibn Hazm 200,000 times in less than 0.1 second. There is a site based in Paris Iqra Shop Com that offers CD to learn Arabic, the Koran and the Hadith for the francophone people and other clothing garments.
The book of Ibn Hazm “The affinities of love and The Necklace of the dove” is sold for 12 Euro and described as a must read reference on the subtleties of love proper to Moslems.
Thus, Fatema re-caled her editor and said “Ibn Hazm was right. Love is eternal. I will have to add a chapter on love in Islam in the time of Internet”
The Al Jazeera channel (the Arab counterpart of CNN) is based in Dubai and has Qaradawi as star commentator on love and sex in Islam. Imam Qaradawi calls on an army of experts in religion, fekh, shari3a, psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, and physicians of both genders to answer the thousands of questions that flood his bureau. Qaradawi posts his answers on the net (al internet wal-hub) and publishes booklets at low cost in matters of marriage and love for the adolescents and their parents.
Islam Online has competitors in Muslima.com to aid searching for the appropriate partner in friendship, discussion, romance, and marriage. In the subject of romance the choc of civilization is a non issue because it is universal as the object of world ethic.
For example, estimate in 1999 indicate that aging people had invested over a trillion dollars for rejuvenating their look, especially growing hair on their bolding skull.
Ibn Hazm was born in Cordoba (994-1064) of an aristocratic family.
His father was vizier and he became vizier in Valencia. Ibn Hazm was polyvalent in erudition; he was grammarian, scientist, philosopher, and a religious jurist. He lived in a period as troubled as ours; he led the Zahirite movement against the rigid Malekite sect.
He was made vizier twice and was incarcerated several times when power kept shifting among the warring factions in Andalusia. He came to the conclusion that the best remedy for the decomposition and disintegration of society was to learn authentic love and experience the power of “falling in love”
Other famous Arab authors in seduction are Ibn Al-Jawzi “Denigration of Love” (Dammu Al Hawa) and Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyya “The Garden of lovers” Rawdat al muhibbeen). If all fails, you may fall back to “One thousand and one nights” where you find all kinds of detailed psychoanalytical description of emotions and sexual desires.
It appears that oil may deplete but the medieval archive of Arabic manuscripts on love, sex, and seduction is here to be mined, translated, published, and disseminated in all form of media because romance is for the eternity.
The Arab civilization was the richest in the field of sexual desires; it dissected sexual desire in all its forms, shapes, and varieties; they explained sexual desire in the minute details, pornographically, physiologically, anatomically, and psychologically and left us scientific manuscripts in that field with accurate terminologies.
Note: I opened another category in my blog Adonis49 (Seduction/Love/Sex).
You may start with the links for those interested in following the conversation: https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/seduction-tales/ https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/love-tales/ https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/sex-tales/
Love Tales. And Ibn Hazm (994-1064) descriptions of falling in love.
Posted by: adonis49 on: June 9, 2009
Love Tales (June 8, 2009)
The Moslem Caliph of Baghdad, Haroun Al Racheed, had expanded the Arab Empire to its apogee. He still had insomnia thinking on the meaning and sensations of amorous passion; he wanted to learn more about love and desires, though he had all kinds of concubines.
Caliph Al Rasheed fell in love with his cousin Zubaida, and married her in 781, and she conserved her privilege in Haroun’s heart because of her intelligence and refinement.
The erudite Al Asmai described to the Caliph what love is: “A light that illuminates the mind and permits life to vibrate through its radiation.” Apparently, the caliph was satisfied enough to bestow a fortune to the interpreter.
Al Rasheed was the son of a powerful love affair between Caliph Al Mahdi and his concubine Khizarane whom he married. The early caliphs liked to communicate with women more than with men: they had realize that women made the effort to increase knowledge in varieties of disciplines that Caliphs shared interest in such as poetry, playing musical instruments, medicine, theology, astronomy, and mathematics.
Ibn Hazm who lived in Andalusia (994-1064) was a prolific writer, scientist, statesman, and politician; he wrote the famous “Treatise of Love” which was translated in all kinds of languages and was the main source for Medieval Europe to educate their sentimental and chivalrous behaviors.
Have you ever fallen in love? How do you know that someone is falling in love? Examples of Ibn Hazm description of falling in Love:
“When I get up to leave you, my gait resembles the one who is taken to be executed. When I rejoin you, I hurry as the moon crosses the sky. When I say good bye I am as slow as the fixed stars.”
“When you move I follow you. I take the same direction as yours as the chameleon trails after the sunshine. When you stop I contemplate you intently: the eye is the wide open door for the soul’s secrets.
When I speak to you I utter incongruities. I listen intently at anything you say, I am astonished of whatever you divulge to me, I acknowledge your opinions, and I believe your lies.”
“I feel sensational pleasure being squeezed with you in enclosed quarters. I extend my hand toward the same object you desire to grab. I love to drink from your same glass, where you placed your lips. I am constantly aching to touch your hand and to lean on you.”
“I am discovering that with you, what I loathed is gorgeous and colorful; what was hard is pretty easy to take and do. My inert heart is burning amidst this storm. I am ready to open up on my deepest secrets. If I had not met you I would have never known why my mother conceived me.”
The energy released by Eros is devastating and all consuming. Falling in love is a transforming source of energy; it excites inert and dessicated hearts; it pacifies frenzied tendencies.
It is a bad sign when your lover acts normal when he meets with you or speaks evenly. It is a bad omen when you realize that your lover has excellent appetite and is gaining weight.
Are you a man who likes mostly the company of men?
Are you a woman who likes mostly the company of women?
Then, most probably, you are seeking love in the wrong spheres of society. Falling in love within the same gender is easier than facing the challenge of knowing a different type of love partner; routine communication is the sure way to killing a relationship.
Remember, in matter of feeling, an experienced man is twice better than a regular man; an experienced women is four times better than a novice girl.
Note: I translated many sections from the French manuscript “Love in the Moslem countries“. You may refer to my post “Seduction Tales” on how the French writer George Sand and the French novelist Stendhal describe “falling in love“
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