Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800 : Khaled El-Rouayheb.
El-Rouayheb, Khaled.
Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800 : Khaled El-Rouayheb. / Khaled.El-Rouayheb. - , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2005. - x, 210 pages :24cm.
Pederasts and pathics
Aesthetes
Sodomites
Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. On the one hand, Arabic love poetry, biographical works, and bawdy satires suggest that homosexuality was a visible and tolerated part of Arab-Islamic elite culture before the nineteenth century. On the other hand, Islam supposedly considers homosexuality an abomination and prescribes severe punishment for it. El-Rouayheb shows 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, belles lettres, biographical literature, medicine, physiognomy, dream interpretation, and Islamic legal, mystical, and homiletic texts, he shows that the culture of the period lacked the concept of homosexuality. Instead, paramount importance was given to distinctions that are not captured by that term--between active and passive sexual roles, between passionate infatuation and lust, and between penetrative and nonpenetrative intercourse.-
9780226729893
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Arab countries
History
Homosexuality
Homosexuality in literature
Arabisch
306.766 ELR
Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800 : Khaled El-Rouayheb. / Khaled.El-Rouayheb. - , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2005. - x, 210 pages :24cm.
Pederasts and pathics
Aesthetes
Sodomites
Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. On the one hand, Arabic love poetry, biographical works, and bawdy satires suggest that homosexuality was a visible and tolerated part of Arab-Islamic elite culture before the nineteenth century. On the other hand, Islam supposedly considers homosexuality an abomination and prescribes severe punishment for it. El-Rouayheb shows 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, belles lettres, biographical literature, medicine, physiognomy, dream interpretation, and Islamic legal, mystical, and homiletic texts, he shows that the culture of the period lacked the concept of homosexuality. Instead, paramount importance was given to distinctions that are not captured by that term--between active and passive sexual roles, between passionate infatuation and lust, and between penetrative and nonpenetrative intercourse.-
9780226729893
International Book Distributors : Flat no. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.
Arab countries
History
Homosexuality
Homosexuality in literature
Arabisch
306.766 ELR
