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Islam and homosexuality, Samar Habib, editor ; foreword by Parvez Sharma

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Islam and homosexuality

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Samar Habib, editor ; foreword by Parvez Sharma

An extensive collection of essays that examines the place of homosexuality in the contemporary and classical Muslim world

v. 1. Islam and the politics of homophobia: the persecution of homosexuals in Islamic Malaysia compared to secular China / Walter L. Williams -- Longing, not belonging, and living in fear / Badruddin Khan -- Public displays of affection: male homoerotic desire and sociability in medieval Arabic literature / Jocelyn Sharlet -- Islam and the acceptance of homosexuality: the shortage of socioeconomic well-being and responsive democracy / Tilo Beckers -- Gays under occupation: interviews with gay Iraqis / Michale T. Luongo -- Reading and writing the queer hajj / Omer Shah -- Sexual orientations: the ideological underpinnings of the gay advance in Muslim-majority societies as witnessed in online chat rooms / Max Kramer -- "Because Allah says so": faithful bodies, female masculinities, and the Malay Muslim community of Singapore / Nur ʻAdlina Maulod and Nurhaizatul Jamila Jamil -- Mithliyyun or Lutiyyun? Neo-orthodoxy and the debate on the unlawfulness of same-sex relations in Islam / Barbara Zollner -- v. 2. The social construction of religious realities by queer Muslims / Christopher Grant Kelly -- Is there a gay-friendly Islam? Synthesizing tradition and modernity in the question of homosexuality in Islam / Christopher Grant Kelly -- Neither homophobic nor (hetero) sexually pure: contextualizing Islam's objections to same-sex sexuality / Aleardo Zaghellini -- Implied cases for Muslim same-sex unions / Junaid Bin Jahangir -- Queer visions of Islam / Rusmire Musić -- Queer, American, and Muslim: cultivating identities and communities of affirmation / Mahruq Fatima Khan -- You're what?: engaging narratives from diasporic Muslim women on identity and gay liberation / Ayisha A. Al-Sayyad -- "Everywhere you turn you have to jump into another closet": hegemony, hybridity, and queer Australian Muslims / Ibrahim Abraham -- Marketing diversity: homonormativity and the queer Turkish organizations in Berlin / Ilgin Yorukoglu -- Touch of pink: diasporic queer experiences within Islamic communities / Ahmet Atay -- Sexualities and the social order in Arab and Muslim communities / Rabab Abdulhadi