(Boylove Documentary Sourcebook) - Ribald Pederastic Eroticism in a Poem by Ṣadr ad-Dīn Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq

Fellah (Arab) Donkey Boy, Egypt. Engraving from The Peoples of the World, Vol. 2, by Robert Brown (London; Paris; New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882).

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

The vitality, sophistication and sheer diversity of the mujūn-maqṭūʿ subgenre can be seen equally well in the following micro-collection of mujūn maqāṭīʿ-poems from Shihāb ad-Dīn al-Ḥijāzī al-Khazrajī’s (d. 875/1471) Rawḍ al-ādāb (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:

I’ve got a big (kabīr) cock. So when the young boy (ṣaghīr) said,
“Stab my insides and be valiant!”
I said, “It’s not permitted.” But he replied,
“I say it is” so I fucked him on his own authority (taqlīd).

Group of men lining up to have anal sex with a youth. Ottoman miniature painting from a 1691 copy of the Quintet of Atâyî (خمسۂ عطاۓ Hamse-i Atâyî) by Nev'îzâde Atâyî (1583–1635). Istanbul, Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi, Inv. No. 1969.

See also

• Ephebophilia
• Ghilman
• Köçek
• Pederasty in the Middle East and Central Asia
• Sufism
• Tellak