31st Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI 31)
Granada, 9-14 September 2024

SESSION 21 (Panel): Senses and Perception in the Premodern Islamic World I – ROOM 3 (11:00-12:30)
SESSION 24 (Panel): Senses and Perception in the Premodern Islamic World II – ROOM 3 (12:30-14:00)

Organiser: Isabel Toral

These panels seek to explore the diverse ways in which individuals within the premodern Islamicate world perceived, navigated, and utilized their senses, how these perceptions were culturally inflected and embodied, and how they were (collectively and / or individually) expressed.

Contributions

Awakening the Five Senses. Sensations and Perceptions in the Sexual Practice in Nasrid Granada (7th/13th-9th/15th centuries)
Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, Univ. of Granada

Cultivation of the Senses in Islamic Ars Erotica: Arabic Erotic Manuals (4^th/10^th–9^th/15^th centuries)
Pernilla Myrne, Universtity of  Göteborg

Mind your table-manners! Social etiquette and disgusting food consumption in adab literature
Isabel Toral, Freie Universtät Berlin

Loud farts can break a majlis! Scatology in premodern adab
Asmaa Essakouti, Univ. Münster

Debates on sense-perception in kalam
Jan Thiele, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient (CSIC), Madrid

Perceptual Transformation and Medical Discourse in Early Critiques of Sufism (4th/10th-6th/12th centuries)
Ignacio Sánchez, Escuela de Traductores de Toledo, Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha