Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850 - 1780 a D

Name: Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850 - 1780 a D
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ISBN: 9781934844113

ISBN-10: 193484411X

ISBN-13: 9781934844113

Edition: 2009

Authors: Samar Habib

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Increasingly in mainstream discourse and rhetoric, there only seems to be one very serious and conservative face to Islam, Muslim communities, and their governments. Mainstream modern Islamic hermeneutics condemn homosexual orientations, sometimes with punishments as severe as death. Nevertheless, there were also instances in Muslim history, culture, and society where religiosity was playful not punitive, where the sexual body was inscribed with markers of pleasure not those of perdition. Exploring instances within the Arabian Islamic Empire that negate impressions about Muslim cultures as eternally monolithic, conservative, and orthodox, we can come to a better and more nuanced…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Teneo Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English