Islam and homosexuality

Islam and homosexuality

Habib, Samar, editor

Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2010.

United States of America: Santa Barbara, CA

2 volumes. 503 p.

English

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Foreword by Parvez Sharma

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Vol. 1. -- Foreword / Parvez Sharma -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Islam and homosexuality / Samar Habib-- 1. Islam and the politics of homophobia: the persecution of homosexuals in Islamic Malaysia compared to secular China / Walter L. Williams -- 2. Longing, not belonging, and living in fear / Badruddin Khan -- 3. Public displays of affection: male homoerotic desire and sociability in medieval Arabic literature / Jocelyn Sharlet -- 4. Islam and the acceptance of homosexuality: the shortage of socioeconomic well-being and responsive democracy / Tilo Beckers -- 5. Gays under occupation: interviews with gay Iraqis / Michael T. Luongo -- 6. Reading and writing the queer Hajj / Omer Shah -- 7. Sexual orientation: the ideological underpinnings the gay advance in Muslim-majority societies as witnessed in online chat rooms / Max Kramer -- 8. 'Because Allah says so': faithful bodies, female masculinities, and the Malay Muslim community of Singapore / Nur ѵAdlina Maulod and Nurhaizatul Jamila Jamil -- 9. Mithliyyun or Lutiyyun? Neo-orthodoxy and the debate on the unlawfulness of same-sex relations in Islam / Barbara Zollner -- Vol. 2. -- 10. The social construction of religious realities by queer Muslims / Christopher Grant Kelly -- 11. Is there a 'gay-friendly' Islam? Synthesizing tradition and modernity in the question of homosexuality in Islam / Christopher Grant Kelly -- 12. Neither homophobic nor (hetero) sexually pure: contextualizing Islam's objections to same-sex sexuality / Aleardo Zanghellini -- 13. Implied cases for Muslim same-sex unions / Junaid Bin Jahangir -- 14. Queer visions of Islam / Rusmir Musić -- 15. Queer, American, and Muslim: cultivating identities and communities of affirmation / Mahruq Fatima Khan -- 16. 'You're what?': Engaging narratives from diasporic Muslim women on identity and gay liberation / Ayisha A. Al-Sayyad -- 17. 'Everywhere you turn you have to jump into another closet': Hegemony, hybridity, and queer Australian Muslims / Ibrahim Abraham -- 18. Marketing diversity: homonormativity and the queer Turkish organizations in Berlin / Ilgin Yorukoglu -- 19. أTouch of pinkؤ: Diasporic queer experiences within Islamic communities / Ahmet Atay -- 20. Sexualities and the social order in Arab and Muslim communities / Rabab Abdulhadi -- About the editor and contributors -- Index

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