ISBN:
0226729885
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0226729907
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9780226729886
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9780226729909
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 210 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.76/6/09174927
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1800
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Homosexualité / États arabes / Histoire
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Sodomie / États arabes / Histoire
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Homosexualité dans la littérature
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies
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Homosexuality
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Homosexuality in literature
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Sodomy
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Geschichte
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Homosexuality History
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Sodomy History
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Homosexuality in literature
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Homosexualität
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Arabisch
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Araber
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Homosexualität
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Literatur
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Arabisch
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Literatur
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Homosexualität
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
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Araber
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Homosexualität
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Geschichte 1500-1800
Note:
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-204) and index
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Pederasts and pathics -- Aesthetes -- Sodomites
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Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. On the one hand, Arabic love poetry, biographical works, and bawdy satires suggest that homosexuality was a visible and tolerated part of Arab-Islamic elite culture before the nineteenth century. On the other hand, Islam supposedly considers homosexuality an abomination and prescribes severe punishment for it. El-Rouayheb shows that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a timeless, self-evident fact to which a particular culture reacts with some degree of tolerance or intolerance. Drawing on poetry, belles lettres, biographical literature, medicine, physiognomy, dream interpretation, and Islamic legal, mystical, and homiletic texts, he shows that the culture of the period lacked the concept of homosexuality. Instead, paramount importance was given to distinctions that are not captured by that term--between active and passive sexual roles, between passionate infatuation and lust, and between penetrative and nonpenetrative intercourse.--From publisher description
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