Hello and welcome to Queer Respect, a podcast, bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

I'm Irene.

I'm Alice.

I'm Eli.

And today we're going to be talking about Punjabi Sufi poet Shah Hussein.

We do have a few content warnings before we start.

There will be a relationship with a large age difference.

I'm not sure exactly how large, but we know that it's large,

as well as one fairly gruesome threat of execution, though nobody actually gets executed.

There will also be poetic description of sex.

Okay.

That's a more pleasant content warning than the other ones.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't think the description of sex is negative in any way.

I just feel that people should be flagged that it's definitely sex.

Okay.

Okay.

I also want to talk a little bit about sources.

You all know this has to happen.

Apparently.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, while there was a definitive English language translation, like a collection

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