Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam : : A Legal-hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shīʿī Discourse / / Mehrdad Alipour.
To enrich the existing debates on Islam and sexual diversity, in the present book, I seek the potential discursive spaces on homosexuality in modern Imāmī legal debates. I have undertaken this research on the thesis that modern Imāmī legal tradition on homosexuality is more flexible and dynamic...
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| Superior document: | Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024. ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Studies in Islamic Law and Society ; 55. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (361 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. Preliminaries
- Chapter One: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Islam
- Chapter Two: Modern Shiʿi Ijtihād : a methodological discussion
- Chapter Three: Modern Homosexuality and the Pre-Homosexual Categories
- Part II. Homosexuality through the Lenses of Modern Shiʿi Ijtihād (Four Sources of Argumentation)
- Chapter Four: Examining the Qurʾānic Discourse on Homosexuality
- Chapter Five: Gauging the Sunna on Homosexuality
- Chapter Six: Consensus and Reason on Homosexuality
- Part III. Homosexuality through the Lenses of Modern Shiʿi Ijtihād (Investigating Practical Solutions)
- Chapter Seven: Homosexuality, Procedural Principles, and Legal Maxims
- Chapter Eight: Same-sex Unions and Islamic Legal Ethics
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. Typology of Shiʿi ḥadīth on Same-Sex Sexual Behaviours
- Bibliography
- Index.