Homosexuality, Transidentity, and Islam : : A Study of Scripture Confronting the Politics of Gender and Sexuality / / Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed.

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed proposes to summarize here the Islamic scriptural sources relating to the question of the diversity of (human) nature(s), genders, and sexualities. Thus, through an approach that is certainly more politically engaged than that of most Islamic thinkers of our time, I clarify cer...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (132 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • I. The Qur'anic Ethics of "Nature": Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity
  • II. Distressing Qur'anic Verses?
  • III. The Prophet: A Living Incarnation of Qur'anic Ethics
  • IV. Islamic Apocrypha Advocating the Stoning of "Sodomites"
  • V. Postcolonial Orientalisms
  • VI. "Abnormals": From Cultural Diversity to Dogmatic Uniformity
  • VII. Towards a Structural Reevaluation of Cultural Values
  • VIII. Pan-Arabist Literary and Identity Censorship
  • IX. Orientalist Shi'ism and Literary Homoeroticism
  • X. Homonationalism and Performative Sexual Categorization
  • XI. A "Crisis" of Categories, Geopolitics or Civilization
  • Conclusion
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index