Abdelwahab Bouhdiba

Sexuality in Islam

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on both Arabic and Western sources, the author describes the place of sexuality in the traditional Islamic world view.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saqi Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 134mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 333g
• ISBN-13: 9780863564932
• ISBN-10: 0863564933
• Artikelnr.: 34382635

Autorenporträt

Born in 1932 in Kairouan, Tunisia, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba is Professor of Islamic Sociology at the University of Tunis, where he is also Director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Economiques et Sociales. He has served as an adviser to international organizations such as UNESCO and the UN, and to the Tunisian government, on issues dealing with development and on human rights. He was awarded the Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture in 2004.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents:
Preface vii
Part I: The Islamic view of sexuality 1
1 The Quran and the question of sexuality 7
2 Sexual prohibitions in Islam 14
3 The eternal and Islamic feminine 19
4 The frontier of the sexes 30
5 Purity lost, purity regained 43
6 Commerce with the invisible 58
7 The infinite orgasm 72
8 The sexual and the sacral 88
Part II: Sexual practice in Islam 101
9 Sexuality and sociality 103
10 Variations on eroticism: misogyny, mysticism and `mujun' 116
11 Erotology 140
12 Certain practices 159
13 In the kingdom of the mothers 212
Conclusion 231
Notes 250
Bibliography 273