Islam and Homosexuality (eBook, PDF)

[2 volumes]
Redaktion: Habib, Samar

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An extensive collection of essays that examines the place of homosexuality in the contemporary and classical Muslim world.

The place of sexual and gender minorities in the contemporary Islamic world is the subject of fascinating new directions in research and scholarly thought. Islam and Homosexuality gathers together 20 experts exploring these issues to provide an expansive look at the treatment of same-sex interactions in Muslim cultures today.

Islam and Homosexuality offers one volume on the specific experiences of gay Muslims today and a second volume viewing the issue from a global perspective. Essays explore the lives of LGBTIQ persons in both Islamic nations and Muslim communities in non-Islamic countries. Additional writings explore the roots of homophobia in the theology of Islam, the various judgments against homosexuality in the different schools of Islamic law, and the potential scriptural basis for including LGBTIQ persons in the Muslim community. No other resource on the relationship between LGBTIQ persons and the world's largest religion covers the topic with anything approaching this work's range or depth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313379017
• Artikelnr.: 37838481

Autorenporträt

Dr. Samar Habib, PhD, lectures at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and is the chief editor of Nebula.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1
Foreword by Parvez Sharma
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Islam and Homosexuality
Samar Habib
1 Islam and the Politics of Homophobia: The Persecution of Homosexuals in
Islamic Malaysia Compared to Secular China
Walter L. Williams
2 Longing, Not Belonging, and Living in Fear
Badruddin Khan
3 Public Displays of Affection: Male Homoerotic Desire and Sociability in
Medieval Arabic Literature
Jocelyn Sharlet
4 Islam and the Acceptance of Homosexuality: The Shortage of Socioeconomic
Well-Being and Responsive Democracy
Tilo Beckers
5 Gays under Occupation: Interviews with Gay Iraqis
Michael T. Luongo
6 Reading and Writing the Queer Hajj
Omer Shah
7 Sexual Orientation: The Ideological Underpinnings of the Gay Advance in
Muslim-Majority Societies as Witnessed in Online Chat Rooms
Max Kramer
8 "Because Allah Says So": Faithful Bodies, Female Masculinities, and the
Malay Muslim Community of Singapore
Nur 'Adlina Maulod and Nurhaizatul Jamila Jamil
9 Mithliyyun or Lutiyyun? Neo-Orthodoxy and the Debate on the Unlawfulness
of Same-Sex Relations in Islam
Barbara Zollner
Volume 2
10 The Social Construction of Religious Realities by Queer Muslims
Christopher Grant Kelly
11 Is There a "Gay-Friendly" Islam? Synthesizing Tradition and Modernity in
the Question of Homosexuality in Islam
Christopher Grant Kelly
12 Neither Homophobic nor (Hetero) Sexually Pure: Contextualizing Islam's
Objections to Same-Sex Sexuality
Aleardo Zanghellini
13 Implied Cases for Muslim Same-Sex Unions
Junaid Bin Jahangir
14 Queer Visions of Islam
Rusmir Music
15 Queer, American, and Muslim: Cultivating Identities and Communities of
Affirmation
Mahruq Fatima Khan
16 "You're What?": Engaging Narratives from Diasporic Muslim Women on
Identity and Gay Liberation
Ayisha A. Al-Sayyad
17 "Everywhere You Turn You Have to Jump into Another Closet": Hegemony,
Hybridity, and Queer Australian Muslims
Ibrahim Abraham
18 Marketing Diversity: Homonormativity and the Queer Turkish Organizations
in Berlin
Ilgin Yorukoglu
19 Touch of Pink: Diasporic Queer Experiences within Islamic Communities
Ahmet Atay
20 Sexualities and the Social Order in Arab and Muslim Communities
Rabab Abdulhadi
About the Editor and Contributors
Index