The beauty of the houri : heavenly virgins, feminine ideals /

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Author / Creator:	Rustomji, Nerina, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Description:	1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford scholarship online Oxford scholarship online.
Subject:	Paradise -- Islam. Islamic eschatology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12687594

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ISBN:	9780190249373 (ebook) : No price
Notes:	Also issued in print: 2021. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 7, 2021).
Summary:	The fascination with the houri, the pure female of Islamic paradise, began long before September 11, 2001. 'The Beauty of the Houri' demonstrates how the ambiguous reward of the houri, mentioned in the Quran and developed in Islamic theological writings, has gained a distinctive place in English and French literature from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century and in digital material in the twenty-first century.
Target Audience:	Specialized.
Other form:	Print version : 9780190249342

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