The Beauty of the Houri by Nerina Rustomji
The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideals demonstrates how the ambiguous reward of the houri, mentioned in the Qur\u2019an and developed in Islamic theological writings, has gained a distinctive place in the cultural eye from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.
In this episode, we talk with Nerina Rustomji, an associate professor of History at St. John\u2019s University and the author of The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideals.