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  1. Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800
    Khaled El-Rouayheb
    Published: c2005
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    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... more

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    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.--From publisher description

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226729886; 0226729885; 9780226729909; 0226729907
    Subjects: Homosexuality; Sodomy; Homosexualité; Sodomie; Homosexualité dans la littérature; Homosexuality in literature; Homosexuality; Sodomy; Homosexuality in literature; Sodomy; Homosexuality; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies; Homosexuality; Homosexuality in literature; Sodomy; Araber; Arabisch; Homosexualität; Homosexualität; Literatur; History
    Scope: Online Ressource (x, 210 p.)
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    Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-204) and index. - Description based on print version record

    Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge

    Pederasts and pathicsAesthetes -- Sodomites.

  2. Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800
    Khaled El-Rouayheb
    Published: ©2005
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226729885; 0226729907; 9780226729886; 9780226729909
    RVK Categories: BE 8620 ; MS 2870
    Subjects: Homosexualité / États arabes / Histoire; Sodomie / États arabes / Histoire; Homosexualité dans la littérature; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies; Homosexuality; Homosexuality in literature; Sodomy; Geschichte; Homosexuality; Sodomy; Homosexuality in literature; Homosexualität <Motiv>; Arabisch; Araber; Homosexualität; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 210 pages)
    Notes:

    Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-204) and index

    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.--From publisher description