"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 suceeds...a valuable addition
to any library or interested reader's bookshelf."
-- "Journal of Homosexuality"
The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years
has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes
depict Islamic societies as economically backward,
hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. 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 often flourished within the Islamic world. Indeed, same-sex
relations have, until quite recently, been much more tolerated
under Islam than in the Christian West.
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. Essays show both
age-stratified patterns of homosexuality, as revealed in the erotic
and romantic poetry of medieval poets, and gender-based patterns,
in which both men and women might, to varying degrees, choose to
live as members of the opposite sex. The contributors draw on
historical documents, literarytexts, ethnographic observation and
direct observation by both Muslim and non-Muslim authors to show
the considerable diversity of Islamic societies and the existence
of tolerated gender and sexual variances.
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