Virtues of the flesh: passion and purity in early Islamic jurisprudence
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Main Author: Maghen, Zeʼev (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2005
Series:Studies in Islamic law and society v. 23
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-292) and index
Separate but equal: the erotic Aḥdāth as desiderata -- Devil may care: Abdelwahab Bouhdiba and the demonization of impurity -- Zayd and Zaynab revisited: bowdlerizing the Uswa Ḥasana -- The steaming East: Franz Rosenthal and the literature of sexual subversion -- ' ... If you have touched women ... ': the root of the controversy -- Kitāb: five centuries of logomachy -- Sunna: inside the apostle's abode -- Ra'y: the spectrum of ratiocination -- On account of a kiss: Ṭahāra as libidinal regulator -- Palpation and palpitation: the further breakdown of Mulāmasa -- Dancing in chains
This volume focuses on the portions of Muslim purity jurisprudence that deal with matters libidinal -- mulamasa (the ritual result of contact with the opposite sex) and janaba (ceremonial defilement following cohabitation) -- and examines their implications for the Islamic outlook on sexuality
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 298 p.)
ISBN:1433706288
9047406230
9781433706288
9789047406235

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