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Homosexuality, transidentity, and Islam : a study of scripture confronting the politics of gender and sexuality / Ludovic-Mohahamed Zahed ; foreword by Jan Jaap de Ruiter ; translation and afterword by Adi S. Bharat.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Undetermined Publication details: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.Description: 1 online resource (131 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9789048544080
  • 9048544084
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Homosexuality, Transidentity, and Islam : A Study of Scripture Confronting the Politics of Gender and Sexuality.DDC classification:
  • 297.08664 23
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  • BP188.14.H65
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Foreword; Jan Jaap de Ruiter; Introduction; I. The Qur'anic Ethics of "Nature": Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity; 1a. Human Nature: Mirroring the Will of God; 1b. Condemnation of "Immoral" Practices; II. Distressing Qur'anic Verses?; 2a. The Original Sodomy: Forbidding Ritual Rape; 2b. The Absence of Female Homosexuality in the Qur'an; 2c. Positive Representations of Gender Minorities in the Qur'an; III. The Prophet: A Living Incarnation of Qur'anic Ethics; 3a. Was the Prophet Homophobic and Transphobic?
3b. The Status of Mukhannathun: "Effeminate," Trans, or Gay? 3c. The First "Sodomite": Neither Gay nor Trans, but a Rapist; IV. Islamic Apocrypha Advocating the Stoning of "Sodomites"; 4a. The Sectarian Ideology of Fatwas Associating "Sodomy" with Apostasy; 4b. A Former Mukhannath's Internalized Homophobia and Misogyny; 4c. What the Different Islamic Schools of Thought Advocate; 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 HomoeroticismX. Homonationalism and Performative Sexual Categorization; XI. A "Crisis" of Categories, Geopolitics or Civilization; Conclusion; Afterword; Adi S. Bharat; Bibliography; Index; List of Figures; Figure 1 Hadith classification; Figure 2 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths concerning mukhannathun; Figure 3 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths condemning 'sodomites'; Figure 4 Apocryphal hadiths concerning the execution or stoning of 'sodomites'
Summary: 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 certain theological notions that may seem hermetic for the uninitiated. He often encouters people - be they personally concerned or not by this question - who have heard so much about the subject that they want to have a clearer understanding of the question that would be at once synthetic and global, from the point of view of the so-called Arab-Muslim tradition.
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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 certain theological notions that may seem hermetic for the uninitiated. He often encouters people - be they personally concerned or not by this question - who have heard so much about the subject that they want to have a clearer understanding of the question that would be at once synthetic and global, from the point of view of the so-called Arab-Muslim tradition.

Print version record.

Foreword; Jan Jaap de Ruiter; Introduction; I. The Qur'anic Ethics of "Nature": Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity; 1a. Human Nature: Mirroring the Will of God; 1b. Condemnation of "Immoral" Practices; II. Distressing Qur'anic Verses?; 2a. The Original Sodomy: Forbidding Ritual Rape; 2b. The Absence of Female Homosexuality in the Qur'an; 2c. Positive Representations of Gender Minorities in the Qur'an; III. The Prophet: A Living Incarnation of Qur'anic Ethics; 3a. Was the Prophet Homophobic and Transphobic?

3b. The Status of Mukhannathun: "Effeminate," Trans, or Gay? 3c. The First "Sodomite": Neither Gay nor Trans, but a Rapist; IV. Islamic Apocrypha Advocating the Stoning of "Sodomites"; 4a. The Sectarian Ideology of Fatwas Associating "Sodomy" with Apostasy; 4b. A Former Mukhannath's Internalized Homophobia and Misogyny; 4c. What the Different Islamic Schools of Thought Advocate; 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 HomoeroticismX. Homonationalism and Performative Sexual Categorization; XI. A "Crisis" of Categories, Geopolitics or Civilization; Conclusion; Afterword; Adi S. Bharat; Bibliography; Index; List of Figures; Figure 1 Hadith classification; Figure 2 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths concerning mukhannathun; Figure 3 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths condemning 'sodomites'; Figure 4 Apocryphal hadiths concerning the execution or stoning of 'sodomites'

Includes bibliographical references and index.