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From <i>How Do You Say "Epigram" in Arabic?: Literary History at the Limits of Comparison</i> by Adam Talib, <i>Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures</i> (Leiden, Netherlands; Boston: Brill, 2017). Footnotes omitted.

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The vitality, sophistication and sheer diversity of the <i>mujūn-maqṭūʿ</i> subgenre can be seen equally well in the following micro-collection of <i>mujūn maqāṭīʿ</i>-poems from Shihāb ad-Dīn al-Ḥijāzī al-Khazrajī’s (d. 875/1471) <i>Rawḍ al-ādāb</i> (part three, chapter eight), an important literary anthology discussed in the previous chapter:

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[Poem 23] Ṣadr ad-Dīn Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq:
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I’ve got a big (<i>kabīr</i>) cock. So when the young boy (<i>ṣaghīr</i>) said,<br>
“Stab my insides and be valiant!”<br>
I said, “It’s not permitted.” But he replied,<br>
“I say it is” so I [[Anal intercourse|fucked him]] on his own authority (<i>taqlīd</i>).
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==See also==
*[[Ephebophilia]]
*[[Ghilman]]
*[[Köçek]]
*[[Pederasty in the Middle East and Central Asia]]
*[[Sufism]]
*[[Tellak]]

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