Abdelwahab Bouhdiba

Sexuality in Islam (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this classic work, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba asserts that Islam is a lyrical view of life in which sexuality enjoys a privileged status. Drawing on both Arabic and Western sources and seeking to integrate the religious and the sexual, Bouhdiba describes the place of sexuality in the traditional Islamic view of the world and examines whether a harmony of sexuality and religious faith is achieved in practice. Beginning with the Quran, Bouhdiba confronts the question of male supremacy in Islam and the strict separation of the masculine and the feminine. He considers purification practices; Islamic attitudes towards homosexuality, concubinage and legal marriage; and sexual taboos laid down by the Quran. Bouhdiba assesses contemporary sexual practice, including eroticism, misogyny and mysticism, and concludes that the ideal Islamic model of sexuality has been debased. 'Readable and informative ... an imaginative and off-beat sourcebook’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saqi Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780863568664
• Artikelnr.: 38229996

Autorenporträt

Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Alan Sheridan

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The Islamic View of Sexuality
Chapter 1 The Quran and the Question of Sexuality
Chapter 2 Sexual Prohibitions in Islam
Chapter 3 The Eternal and Islamic Feminine
Chapter 4 The Frontier of the Sexes
Chapter 5 Purity Lost, Purity Regained
Chapter 6 Commerce with the invisible
Chapter 7 The Infinite Orgasm
Chapter 8 The Sexual and the Sacral
Part 2 Sexual Practice in Islam
Chapter 9 Sexuality and Sociality
Chapter 10 Variations on Eroticism: Misogyny, Mysticism and 'Muj?n'
Chapter 11 Erotology
Chapter 12 Certain practices
Chapter 13 In the kingdom of the mothers