Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800 : Khaled El-Rouayheb.
Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800 : Khaled El-Rouayheb.
Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800 : Khaled El-Rouayheb.
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Publisher
Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N306.76609/ 14
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Language
English
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Physical content
210 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Pederasts and pathics -- Ch. 2. Aesthetes -- Ch. 3. Sodomites.
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Publisher
Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2005.
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Summary
"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."
"In Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800, Khaled 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,...
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Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800 : Khaled El-Rouayheb.
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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N306.76609/ 14
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74VK6PxDkyAg
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ISBN
0226729885 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226729886 (cloth : alk. paper)
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306.76609174927
MMS ID
991020803809702626
