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Before Homosexuality in the Arab Islamic World 1500 1800

by [El-Rouayheb, Khaled]

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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.

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  • University of Chicago Pre Brand
  • Nov 1, 2005 Pub Date:
  • 9780226729886 ISBN-13:
  • 0226729885 ISBN-10:
  • 210.0 pages Hardcover
  • English Language
  • 0.73 in * 6.38 in * 9.3 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: