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9780226729886

Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800

by EL-ROUAYHEB, KHALED
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    9780226729886

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    0226729885

  • eBook ISBN(s):

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenicvisible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El-Rouayheb argues 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, biographical literature, medicine, dream interpretation, and Islamic texts, he shows that the culture of the period lacked the concept of homosexuality. "Meticulously researched, lucidly written, nuanced, and brilliantly conceived, [the book] forthrightly takes on complex issues surrounding the culture of same-sex eroticism that existed in the Arabic-speaking lands of the early modern Ottoman Empire. . . . An important book by an excellent scholar."Journal of Religion "Rectifies many . . . prejudices and misinterpretations in a masterly fashion."Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Author Biography

Khaled El-Rouayheb is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(12)
Pederasts and Pathics
13(40)
Aesthetes
53(58)
Sodomites
111(42)
Conclusion 153(10)
Notes 163(28)
Bibliography 191(14)
Index 205

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