Separate but equal: the erotic Aḥdāth as desiderata -- Devil may care: Abdelwahab Bouhdiba and the demonization of impurity -- Zayd and Zaynab revisited: bowdlerizing the Uswa Ḥasana -- The steaming East: Franz Rosenthal and the literature of sexual subversion -- ' ... If you have touched women ... ': the root of the controversy -- Kitāb: five centuries of logomachy -- Sunna: inside the apostle's abode -- Ra'y: the spectrum of ratiocination -- On account of a kiss: Ṭahāra as libidinal regulator -- Palpation and palpitation: the further breakdown of Mulāmasa -- Dancing in chains
Summary
This volume focuses on the portions of Muslim purity jurisprudence that deal with matters libidinal -- mulamasa (the ritual result of contact with the opposite sex) and janaba (ceremonial defilement following cohabitation) -- and examines their implications for the Islamic outlook on sexuality
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index
