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NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
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ALei2996
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انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Lūṭī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Floor, Willem
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Leiden
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Brill
GENERAL NOTES
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(1,817 words)
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The term lūṭī (pl. alvāṭ ) referred primarily to dervishes and entertainers. Both groups were storytellers and performers with snakes and scorpions, sometimes obscuring the difference between the two, and both had a reputation for immorality (drinking wine, pederasty, using opium, untrustworthiness). By extension, the term was used to refer to others' behaviour similar to that of lūṭī s. 1. Etymology The etymology is uncertain. Given the meaning of loose living, gambling, wine-drinking, and pederasty suggests that the term may have been derived from Arabic liwāṭ (sodomy), the maṣdar (verbal
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Title
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
International Standard Serial Number
9789004356665
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Islam.
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Floor, Willem
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مطالعه متن کتاب [Article]
275578
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