ISBN:
9780814774670
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (341 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Islamic Homosexualities : Culture, History, and Literature
DDC:
306/.62/0917671
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality. The first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological perspective, Homosexuality in the Muslim World reveals that patterns of male and female homosexuality have existed and often flourished wi
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Part I: Introduction to Islamic Homosexualities; 1. Introduction; 2. The Will Not to Know: Islamic Accommodations of Male Homosexuality; 3. Precursors of Islamic Male Homosexualities; 4. Muhammad and Male Homosexuality; 5. Woman-Woman Love in Islamic Societies; Part II: Literary Studies; 6. Vision and Passion: The Symbolism of Male Love in Islamic Mystical Literature; 7. Corporealizing Medieval Persian and Turkish Tropes; 8. Male Love and Islamic Law in Arab Spain; Part III: Historical Studies
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9. Male Homosexuality, Inheritance Rules, and the Status of Women in Medieval Egypt: The Case of the Mamluks10. Homosexuality among Slave Elites in Ottoman Turkey; 11. Male Homosexuality in Ottoman Albania; 12. The Balkan Sworn Virgin: A Cross-Gendered Female Role; 13. Some Nineteenth-Century Reports of Islamic Homosexualities; 14. Gender-Defined Homosexual Roles in Sub-Saharan African Islamic Cultures; Part IV: Anthropological Studies; 15. Institutionalized Gender-Crossing in Southern Iraq; 16. The Sohari Khanith; 17. Male Actresses in Islamic Parts of Indonesia and the Southern Philippines
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18. Two Baluchi Buggas, a Sindhi Zenana, and the Status of Hijras in Contemporary Pakistan19. The Other Side of Midnight: Pakistani Male Prostitutes; 20. Not-So-Gay Life in Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s; 21. Two Islamic AIDS Education Organizations; 22. Conclusion; Appendix; Authors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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