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

Table of Contents

Volume 1 Foreword by 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 of 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 'Adlina 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 Volume 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 Music 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 Touch of Pink: 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

About the Author

Dr. Samar Habib, PhD, lectures at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and is the chief editor of Nebula.

Reviews

Presented in two volumes by Habib (U. of Western Sydney, Australia), this collection contains 20 papers examining a diverse set of issues concerning homosexuality in the Islamic world. The first volume concentrates on the experiences of homosexual minorities across the breadth of the Islamic world and includes comparison of the persecution of homosexuals in Islamic Malaysia and secular China, the impact of 9/11 on gay Muslims in the United States, male homoerotic desire and sociability in medieval Arabic literature, gays in American-occupied Iraq, gay autobiographical writing about the Hajj, the ideological underpinnings of gay advance in Muslim-majority societies as witnessed in online chat rooms, female masculinities and the Malay Muslim community of Singapore, and neo-orthodoxy and the debate on the unlawfulness of same-sex relations in Islam. Topics addressed in the second volume include the social construction of religious realities by queer Muslims, synthesizing tradition and modernity in the question of homosexuality in Islam, narratives from diasporic Muslim women on identity and gay liberation, hegemony and hybridity among queer Australian Muslims, queer Turkish organizations in Berlin and the marketing of diversity, and sexualities and the social order in Arab and Muslim communities.
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A timely work for both public and academic libraries, this set undoubtedly will engender intensive, if not heated, discussion. Essential. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers.
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