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

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

Name: Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
ISBN: 9780226729909

Khaled El-Rouayheb

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Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic—visible 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.

Jahr:

2009

Verlag:

University of Chicago Press

Sprache:

english

Seiten:

224

ISBN 10:

0226729907

ISBN 13:

9780226729909