Islam and homosexuality
By: Samar Habib, editor ; foreword by Parvez Sharma.
Contributors: Habib, Samar.
Publisher: Praeger; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9780313379000; 9780313379017; 9780313379024; 9780313379031; 9780313379048; 9780313379055
Subjects: Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1.  Islam and the politics of homophobia: the persecution of homosexuals in Islamic Malaysia compared to secular China / Walter L. Williams; title: Longing, not belonging, and living in fear / Badruddin Khan; title: Public displays of affection: male homoerotic desire and sociability in medieval Arabic literature / Jocelyn Sharlet; title: Islam and the acceptance of homosexuality: the shortage of socioeconomic well-being and responsive democracy / Tilo Beckers; title: Gays under occupation: interviews with gay Iraqis / Michale T. Luongo; title: Reading and writing the queer hajj / Omer Shah; title: Sexual orientations: the ideological underpinnings of the gay advance in Muslim-majority societies as witnessed in online chat rooms / Max Kramer; title: "Because Allah says so": faithful bodies, female masculinities, and the Malay Muslim community of Singapore / Nur ʻAdlina Maulod and Nurhaizatul Jamila Jamil; title: Mithliyyun or Lutiyyun? Neo-orthodoxy and the debate on the unlawfulness of same-sex relations in Islam / Barbara Zollner; title: v. 2.  The social construction of religious realities by queer Muslims / Christopher Grant Kelly; title: Is there a gay-friendly Islam? Synthesizing tradition and modernity in the question of homosexuality in Islam / Christopher Grant Kelly; title: Neither homophobic nor (hetero) sexually pure: contextualizing Islam's objections to same-sex sexuality / Aleardo Zaghellini; title: Implied cases for Muslim same-sex unions / Junaid Bin Jahangir; title: Queer visions of Islam / Rusmire Musić; title: Queer, American, and Muslim: cultivating identities and communities of affirmation / Mahruq Fatima Khan; title: You're what?: engaging narratives from diasporic Muslim women on identity and gay liberation / Ayisha A. Al-Sayyad; title: "Everywhere you turn you have to jump into another closet": hegemony, hybridity, and queer Australian Muslims / Ibrahim Abraham; title: Marketing diversity: homonormativity and the queer Turkish organizations in Berlin / Ilgin Yorukoglu; title: Touch of pink: diasporic queer experiences within Islamic communities / Ahmet Atay; title: Sexualities and the social order in Arab and Muslim communities / Rabab Abdulhadi