Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800 Khaled El-Rouayheb
Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic-visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El-Rouayheb argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a timele...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press
c2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798499506719 |
| Summary: | Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic-visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El-Rouayheb argues 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, biographical literature, medicine, dream interpretation, and Islamic texts, he shows that the culture of the period lacked the concept of homosexuality. </ |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781282426863 9786612426865 9780226729909 |
