ABSTRACT Modern treatments of Sufi love theory have had a pronounced tendency to disembody and “straighten” Sufi eroticism in various ways. Focusing primarily on a series of anecdotes from the hagiography of the thirteenth-century Persian poet and profligate Sufi lover, Fakhr al-Dīn ʿIrāqī, the author argues that the centrality of bodies and embodied textual performances of Sufi love theory in Sufi hagiographic works not only militates against efforts to reduce this form of desire to a disembodied or philosophical love of “beautiful forms,” but it also helps us to re-embody a particular type of beloved: a same-sex beloved who often gets obscured and metaphorized out of corporeal existence in much modern scholarship. Medieval Sufi eroticism, the author concludes, should not be viewed as a rejection of the body and sexuality, but rather an effort to harness the considerable affective potency inherent in these phenomena for spiritual ends.

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体现心爱的人：体现，（同性恋）色情，以及 Fakhr al-Dīn ʿIrāqī 圣徒传记中欲望的矫正

摘要 苏菲爱情理论的现代处理有明显的倾向，以各种方式去体现和“纠正”苏菲色情。作者主要关注 13 世纪波斯诗人和挥霍的苏菲派爱好者 Fakhr al-Dīn ʿIrāqī 的圣徒传记中的一系列轶事，认为苏菲派圣徒传记作品中苏菲爱理论的身体和具体文本表现的中心地位不仅不利于将这种形式的欲望减少为对“美丽形式”的一种无形的或哲学的热爱，但它也有助于我们重新体现一种特殊类型的爱人：一个经常被肉体掩盖和隐喻的同性爱人存在于许多现代学术中。作者总结说，中世纪的苏菲色情不应被视为对身体和性的拒绝，