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Zuleika

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Zuleika ♀ Of unknown etymolgy. In Islamic and Renaissance Jewish tradition, Zuleika is the name of Potiphar's wife (not actually named in the Bible itself), who attempted to seduce Joseph and, when she failed, turned Potiphar against him (Genesis 39:7–20). In Max Beerbohm's satirical novel Zuleika Dobson (1911), the heroine is a fatally attractive young women who feels that she can only love a man who is indifferent to her. As a result, several of her admirers are driven to suicide.

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Zuleika

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Zuleika, the heroine of Byron's The Bride of Abydos.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Zuleika." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Zuleika.html

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Zuleika." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Zuleika.html

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