Homosexuality, Transidentity, and Islam : : A Study of Scripture Confronting the Politics of Gender and Sexuality / / Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Zahed, Ludovic-Mohamed,
• MitwirkendeR: Bharat, Adi S.,; Bharat, Adi,; Jaap de Ruiter, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (132 p.)

-- With a foreword from Jan Jaap de Ruiter. Translation and Afterword by Adi S. Bharat. -- In Homosexuality, Transidentity, and Islam: A Study of Scripture Confronting the Politics of Gender and Sexuality, Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed systematically analyses the entirety of Islamic scriptural sources that relate to the question of gender and sexuality in relation to their historical contexts. Through an approach that is certainly more politically engaged than that of most Islamic thinkers of our time, he clarifies key theological concepts that may seem esoteric to the uninitiated. In doing so, he makes a compelling case for the compatibility of sexual and gender diversity within Islam. Zahed also examines the historical and contemporary socio-political impacts of inclusive and exclusive (or, quite simply, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic) interpretations of scripture. This important study dynamically examines the connections between scripture, interpretation, and the politics of gender and sexuality.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. The Qur’anic Ethics of “Nature”: Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity -- II. Distressing Qur’anic Verses? -- III. The Prophet: A Living Incarnation of Qur’anic Ethics -- IV. Islamic Apocrypha Advocating the Stoning of “Sodomites” -- V. Postcolonial Orientalisms -- VI. “Abnormals”: From Cultural Diversity to Dogmatic Uniformity -- VII. Towards a Structural Reevaluation of Cultural Values -- VIII. Pan-Arabist Literary and Identity Censorship -- IX. Orientalist Shi’ism and Literary Homoeroticism -- X. Homonationalism and Performative Sexual Categorization -- XI. A “Crisis” of Categories, Geopolitics or Civilization -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index