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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Islamic masculinities: an introduction | |
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| Masculinities and religion | |
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| Gender and Islamic spirituality: a psychological view of 'low' fundamentalism | |
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| The psychological/theoretical framework | |
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| Elements of doctrine and practice in Islamic mysticism | |
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| Ulemasculinists, money-theists, and other 'low' fundamentalists | |
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| The terror within | |
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| The hero's shadow | |
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| The absence of eros and logos | |
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| Masculinity in crisis | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The smile of death and the solemncholy of masculinity | |
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| Tragedy is comedy | |
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| Islamic masculinity, will you please stand up? | |
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| The end: go in laughter | |
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| Alternate images of the Prophet Muhammad's virility | |
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| Forthright classical Islamic descriptions of the Prophet's sexual life | |
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| Western European attacks on Muhammad's 'licentious behaviour' | |
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| Modern Muslims' defensive responses | |
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| Modern Muslim's views of sexuality | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The trial of heritage and the legacy of Abraham | |
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| Masculinities and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict | |
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| 'My Wife is from the Jinn': Palestinian men, diaspora and love | |
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| The jinn and politics in the West Bank | |
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| On interpretation | |
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| Diaspora and return | |
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| Love and desire | |
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| The power of love | |
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| Chasing horses, eating Arabs | |
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| The language of struggle | |
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| The Palestinian position | |
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| Plot lines | |
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| Screening male/female sexuality | |
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| Feminizing the enemy | |
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| Eating Arabs | |
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| Stranger masculinities: gender and politics in a Palestinian-Israeli 'third space' | |
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| Identity conflicts and dilemmas of the Palestinian citizens of Israel | |
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| The mixed context in Jaffa: otherness, strangeness and stereotypes | |
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| To modernity and back: three competing models of masculinity | |
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| Stranger masculinities as postcolonial products | |
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| Masculinities and social practice | |
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| Gender, power and social change in Morocco | |
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| Social changes | |
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| Masculinity and gender violence in Yemen | |
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| Methodology | |
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| Understanding gender violence within the family | |
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| The status of women in Islamic countries | |
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| Yemen society | |
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| Violence against women in Yemen | |
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| The legalization of gender violence | |
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| The response of society towards gender violence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Opportunities for masculinity and love: cultural production in Ba'thist Iraq during the 1980s | |
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| Nationalism and gender | |
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| Mass culture in Ba'thist Iraq | |
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| Militarism, war and gender | |
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| When the land is female, war is love and the nation is a family | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| On being homosexual and Muslim: conflicts and challenges | |
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| Source of conflict | |
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| Coming out | |
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| Marriage | |
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| The challenge to heteronormativity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| 'The worms are weak': male infertility and patriarchal paradoxes in Egypt | |
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| Male infertility in global perspective | |
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| Methodology | |
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| Two cases of male infertility | |
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| Egyptian patriarchy | |
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| Patriarchy and procreative blame | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |