How a ‘love pageant’ in 18th-century Damascus challenged the city’s moral & religious order
Australian Academy of the Humanities 2024-07-04
Summary:
In 1749, a socially and religiously provocative event orchestrated and performed by a group of brazen women unfolded on the streets of Damascus. It was an unprecedented celebratory pageant dedicated to the miraculous recovery of young man from a fatal illness — he was the lover of one of the participating women. Breaking the conservative […]
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