Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800: Khaled El-Rouayheb
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: El-Rouayheb, Khaled 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press ©2005
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:DE-1046
DE-1047
Volltext
Beschreibung: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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 210 Seiten)
ISBN:0226729885
0226729907
9780226729886
9780226729909

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen