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Cadernos Pagu 2012
Cavalgada ao centro da Terra: rotas para uma erótica árabe e indianaDOI: 10.1590/S0104-83332012000100010 Keywords: sacred eroticism, arab, persian and indian mysticism, orientalism. Abstract: this paper discusses the relevancy of western theoretical and empirical concepts such as eroticism, gender, power and religion regarding narratives from arabic, persian and indian traditions dealing with sacred sexuality. furthermore it argues about the muslim and historical concept called jahiyylia or "age of ignorance" as an essentialist concept which hides an amalgam of beliefs and ritual practices.
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