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Title Islam and homosexuality / Samar Habib, editor ; foreword by Parvez Sharma
Published Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes (lxii, 503 pages)) : illustrations
Contents v. 1. Islam and the politics of homophobia: the persecution of homosexuals in Islamic Malaysia compared to secular China / Walter L. Williams -- Longing, not belonging, and living in fear / Badruddin Khan -- Public displays of affection: male homoerotic desire and sociability in medieval Arabic literature / Jocelyn Sharlet -- Islam and the acceptance of homosexuality: the shortage of socioeconomic well-being and responsive democracy / Tilo Beckers -- Gays under occupation: interviews with gay Iraqis / Michale T. Luongo -- Reading and writing the queer hajj / Omer Shah -- Sexual orientations: the ideological underpinnings of the gay advance in Muslim-majority societies as witnessed in online chat rooms / Max Kramer -- "Because Allah says so": faithful bodies, female masculinities, and the Malay Muslim community of Singapore / Nur ʻAdlina Maulod and Nurhaizatul Jamila Jamil -- Mithliyyun or Lutiyyun? Neo-orthodoxy and the debate on the unlawfulness of same-sex relations in Islam / Barbara Zollner -- v. 2. The social construction of religious realities by queer Muslims / Christopher Grant Kelly -- Is there a gay-friendly Islam? Synthesizing tradition and modernity in the question of homosexuality in Islam / Christopher Grant Kelly -- Neither homophobic nor (hetero) sexually pure: contextualizing Islam's objections to same-sex sexuality / Aleardo Zaghellini -- Implied cases for Muslim same-sex unions / Junaid Bin Jahangir -- Queer visions of Islam / Rusmire Musić -- Queer, American, and Muslim: cultivating identities and communities of affirmation / Mahruq Fatima Khan -- You're what?: engaging narratives from diasporic Muslim women on identity and gay liberation / Ayisha A. Al-Sayyad -- "Everywhere you turn you have to jump into another closet": hegemony, hybridity, and queer Australian Muslims / Ibrahim Abraham -- Marketing diversity: homonormativity and the queer Turkish organizations in Berlin / Ilgin Yorukoglu -- Touch of pink: diasporic queer experiences within Islamic communities / Ahmet Atay -- Sexualities and the social order in Arab and Muslim communities / Rabab Abdulhadi
Summary An extensive collection of essays that examines the place of homosexuality in the contemporary and classical Muslim world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Habib, Samar.
ISBN 9780313379017
0313379017
9780313379031
0313379033
9780313379055
031337905X
1283364581
9781283364584