Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814774687 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 340 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A fascinating and eye-opening book about a topic much hinted at but little considered systematically. The authors not only have the benefit of knowing homosexuality in many other societies but are well grounded in matters Islamic." -Middle East Quarterly"Islamic Homosexualities clearly suceedsa valuable addition to any library or interested reader's bookshelf."-Journal of Homosexuality
"Demonstration of plurality of Muslim societies" according to A Customer. Less than a third of this book is about homosexuality in present-day Muslim countries, but a major purpose of the book is to show that the repressiveness sponsored by contemporary "Islamicist fundamentalists" is not the only Muslim approach. Indeed, historically, accommodations to pederasty and to a few gender-variant individuals were made, and The Abode of Islam was far less hostile to same-sex eros and same-sex sex (so long as the insertees were young, effeminate, and/or non-Muslim) than Christendom. This is not to say that homosexuality is part of the religion. As Roscoe's chapter shows, the area conquered/convert. Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature. Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum, Philadelphia Put aside the homophilism and the jargon, both of which are a bit strong, and what�s left is a fascinating and eye-opening book about a topic much hinted at but little considered systematically. The authors not only have the benefit of knowing homosexuality in many other societies but are well grounded in matters Islamic. Despite the title, they deal predominantly with men; lesbians are little known about.As with so much else in the sexual realm, Islamic norms differ profoundly from Western ones. The authors establish several points: (1) Islam treats homosexuality far less harshly than does Judaism or Chri. Rodney M. Brown said Very compelling reading. Gay people are all over the. Very compelling reading. Gay people are all over the world, and have always been.
Murray is a comparative sociologist who lives in San Francisco. Will Roscoe is the award-winning author of The Zuni Man/Womanand Queer Spirits: A Gay Men's Myth Book and the editor of Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology and Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder by Harry Hay.Stephen O. He is the author o
Based on the latest theoretical perspectives in gender studies, feminism, and gay studies, Homosexuality in the Muslim World includes cultural and historical analyses of the entire Islamic world, not just the so-called Middle East. The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality.The first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological perspective, Homosexuality in the Muslim World reveals that patterns of male and female homosexuality have existed and oft