| Description |
1 online resource (x, 210 pages) |
| Contents |
Pederasts and pathics -- Aesthetes -- Sodomites |
| Summary |
Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. On the one hand, Arabic love poetry, biographical works, and bawdy satires suggest that homosexuality was a visible and tolerated part of Arab-Islamic elite culture before the nineteenth century. On the other hand, Islam supposedly considers homosexuality an abomination and prescribes severe punishment for it. El-Rouayheb shows that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a timeless, self-evident fact to which a particular culture reacts with some degree of tolerance or intolerance. Drawing on poetry, belles lettres, biographical literature, medicine, physiognomy, dream interpretation, and Islamic legal, mystical, and homiletic texts, he shows that the culture of the period lacked the concept of homosexuality. Instead, paramount importance was given to distinctions that are not captured by that term--between active and passive sexual roles, between passionate infatuation and lust, and between penetrative and nonpenetrative intercourse.--From publisher description |
| Notes |
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-204) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
English |
|
Print version record |
|
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Arab countries -- History
|
|
Sodomy -- Arab countries -- History
|
|
Homosexuality in literature.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
|
|
Homosexuality
|
|
Homosexuality in literature
|
|
Sodomy
|
|
Araber
|
|
Arabisch
|
|
Homosexualität Motiv
|
|
Homosexualität
|
|
Literatur
|
|
Arab countries
|
|
Araber.
|
|
Arabisch.
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780226729909 |
|
0226729907 |
|
9780226729886 |
|
0226729885 |
|
1282426869 |
|
9781282426863 |
|
9786612426865 |
|
6612426861 |
|
