A Persian mullah sits cross-legged opposite a bazaar prostitute. Iran, 1684
Al Abi (d1030) Natr al-durr
(The Scattering of Pearls) Iran
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Taken
from: Figures de l'esclave au Moyen-age et dans le monde moderne: actes de la ... By Henri Bresc
Full name: Abu Sad Mansur Ibn al-Husayn al-Abi;
is a Monumental encyclopedia
A Zangiyya (1) prostitute (he writes) was only paid half a dirham.
Note: figures given in other books for Iranian
prostitutes range from 1-4 dirhams.
Taken from : Le sodomite et l’efféminé dans l’Islam du IXe-XIe siècle by Mohammed Mezziane.
Dalal, leaving the bride, went to the future spouse. He
tells him: Tonight you will join your wife while you have been chaste for some time. But women, especially from Medina, like that intercourse lasts. I'm afraid that you will ejaculate premature and then you run the risk of not
satisfying your wife. She will not support you anymore. And so he continuous to talk to the bridegroom, and then advised him to bring a black (zanjiyya) to contain this problem. So you can get your wife later and make love in
order to satisfy and make her happy. The bridegroom,
shocked, refusing to
commit fornication (zina) which is furthermore with a black. Dalal stressed and tired of the discussion, ends by saying: Well come to me and soothes your flame. The future husband,
relieved as his bride before him, takes one or two times.
(1) Zangiyya: here a Zanj women; can also mean the Zanj language.