ARTR 3245
Arabic Literary Delights
Course Description
Disciplines
Cultures & Societies of the World, Artistic, Interpretive, & Philosophical Inquiry
In this course, we will venture into the fascinating words and worlds of premodern Arab-Islamic leisure and pleasure. We will focus specifically on the literary representation of and socio-cultural/theosophical debate on humor, pleasantry, wit, frivolity, eating, feasting, banquets crashing, dietetics, erotology, aphrodisiacs, sexual education and hygiene.