Islamic homosexualities : culture, history, and literature /

Islamic homosexualities : culture, history, and literature /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Murray, Stephen O. (Author), Roscoe, Will (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [1997]
Subjects:
Homosexuality > Islamic countries.
Homosexuality > Islamic countries > History.
Male homosexuality > Islamic countries.
Gays in popular culture > Islamic countries.
Homosexualité > Pays musulmans.
Homosexualité > Pays musulmans > Histoire.
Homosexualité masculine > Pays musulmans.
Homosexuels dans la culture populaire > Pays musulmans.
Gays in popular culture.
Homosexuality.
Male homosexuality.
Homoseksualiteit.
Homosexualität
Islam
Homosexualité > Pays islamiques.
Literatur
Kultur
Homosexualität > Motiv
Literatur.
Kultur.
Islam.
Homosexualität <Motiv>
Homosexuality > history.
Islamic countries.
Aufsatzsammlung.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Will Roscoe and Stephen O. Murray
  • The will not to know : Islamic accommodations of male homosexuality / Stephen O. Murray
  • Precursors of Islamic male homosexuality / Will Roscoe
  • Muhammad and male homosexuality / Jim Wafer
  • Woman-woman love in Islamic societies / Stephen O. Murray
  • Vision and passion : the symbolism of male love in Islamic mystical literature / Jim Wafer
  • Corporealizing medieval Persian and Turkish tropes / Stephen O. Murray
  • Male love and Islamic law in Arab Spain / Louis Crompton
  • Male homosexuality, inheritance rules, and the status of women in medieval Egypt : the case of the Mamlūks / Stephen O. Murray
  • Homosexuality among slave elites in Ottoman Turkey / Stephen O. Murray
  • Male homosexuality in Ottoman Albania / Stephen O. Murray
  • The Balkan sworn virgin : a cross-gendered female role / Mildred Dickemann
  • Some nineteenth-century reports of Islamic homosexualities / Stephen O. Murray
  • Gender-defined homosexual role in sub-Saharan African Islamic cultures / Stephen O. Murray
  • Institutionalized gender-crossing in Southern Iraq / Sigrid Wesphal-Hellbusch ; trans. Bradley Rose
  • The Sohari khanith / Stephen O. Murray
  • Two Baluchi buggas, a Sindhi zenana, and the status of hijras in contemporary Pakistan / Nauman Naqvi and Hasan Mujtaba
  • The other side of midnight : Pakistani male prostitutes / Hasan Mujtaba
  • Not-so-gay life in Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s / Badruddin Khan
  • Two Islamic AIDS education organizations / Stephen O. Murray and Eric Allyn
  • Conclusion / Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe.