Islamic Homosexualities : : Culture, History, and Literature /

Islamic Homosexualities : : Culture, History, and Literature / / ed. by Will Roscoe, Stephen O. Murray.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Allyn, Eric,
Crompton, Louis,
Dickemann, Mildred,
Khan, Badruddin,
Mujtaba, Hasan,
Murray, Stephen O.,
Naqvi, Nauman,
Roscoe, Will,
Wafer, Jim,
Westphal-Hellbusch, Sigrid,
HerausgeberIn:
Murray, Stephen O.,
Roscoe, Will,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997]
©1997
Year of Publication:1997
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PART I. Introduction to Islamic Homosexualities
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction
  • CHAPTER 2. The Will Not to Know
  • CHAPTER 3. Precursors of Islamic Male Homosexualities
  • CHAPTER 4. Muhammad and Male Homosexuality
  • CHAPTER 5. Woman-Woman Love in Islamic Societies
  • PART II. Literary Studies
  • CHAPTER 6. Vision and Passion
  • Chapter 7. Corporealizing Medieval Persian and Turkish Tropes
  • Chapter 8. Male Love and Islamic Law in Arab Spain
  • PART III. Historical Studies
  • Chapter 9. Male Homosexuality, Inheritance Rules, and the Status of Women in Medieval Egypt
  • CHAPTER 10. Homosexuality among Slave Elites in Ottoman Turkey
  • CHAPTER 11. Male Homosexuality in Ottoman Albania
  • CHAPTER 12. The Balkan Sworn Virgin
  • CHAPTER 13. Some Nineteenth-Century Reports of Islamic Homosexualities
  • CHAPTER 14. Gender-Defined Homosexual Roles in Sub-Saharan African Islamic Cultures
  • PART IV. Anthropological Studies
  • CHAPTER 15. Institutionalized Gender-Crossing in Southern Iraq
  • CHAPTER 16. The Sohari Khanith
  • CHAPTER 17. Male Actresses in Islamic Parts of Indonesia and the Southern Philippines
  • CHAPTER 18. Two Baluchi Buggas, a Sindhi Zenana, and the Status of Hijras in Contemporary Pakistan
  • CHAPTER 19. The Other Side of Midnight
  • CHAPTER 20. Not-So-Gay Life in Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s
  • CHAPTER 21. Two Islamic AIDS Education Organizations
  • CHAPTER 22. Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Authors
  • Index

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