Virtues of the flesh : : passion and purity in early Islamic jurisprudence / / by Ze'ev Maghen.
Robust sexuality, profound spirituality and elaborate legalism are, at first glance, strange bedfellows. The conventional Western wisdom has long conceived of these several modes as comprising an antagonistic trichotomy, in which each component is opposed to the others. Classical Islam, on the other...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Islamic law and society, v. 23 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Islamic law and society ;
v. 23. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Chapter One. Separate But Equal: The Erotic Ahdath as Desiderata; Chapter Two. Devil May Care: Abdelwahab Bouhdiba and the Demonization of Impurity; Chapter Three. Zayd and Zaynab Revisited: Bowdlerizing the Uswa Hasana; Chapter Four. The Steaming East: Franz Rosenthal and the Literature of Sexual Subversion; Chapter Five. '... If You Have Touched Women ...': The Root of the Controversy; Chapter Six. Kitab: Five Centuries of Logomachy; Chapter Seven. Sunna: Inside the Apostle's Abode; Chapter Eight. Ra'y: The Spectrum of Ratiocination
- Chapter Nine. On Account of a Kiss: Tahara as Libidinal Regulator Chapter Ten. Palpation and Palpitation: The Further Breakdown of Mulamasa; Conclusion. Dancing in Chains; Bibliography; Index