Islamic homosexualities : culture, history, and literature / Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe ; with additional contributions by Eric Allyn [and others].

Author/creator Murray, Stephen O.
Other author Roscoe, Will.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press, ©1997.
Descriptionix, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Homosexuality--Islamic countries.
Homosexuality--Islamic countries. --History.
Male homosexuality--Islamic countries.
Gay people in popular culture--Islamic countries.

Contents Introduction / Will Roscoe and Stephen O. Murray -- The will not to know : Islamic accommodations of male homosexuality / Stephen O. Murray -- Precursors of Islamic male homosexuality / Will Roscoe -- Muhammad and male homosexuality / Jim Wafer -- Woman-woman love in Islamic societies / Stephen O. Murray -- Vision and passion : the symbolism of male love in Islamic mystical literature / Jim Wafer -- Corporealizing medieval Persian and Turkish tropes / Stephen O. Murray -- Male love and Islamic law in Arab Spain / Louis Crompton -- Male homosexuality, inheritance rules, and the status of women in medieval Egypt : the case of the Mamlūks / Stephen O. Murray -- Homosexuality among slave elites in Ottoman Turkey / Stephen O. Murray -- Male homosexuality in Ottoman Albania / Stephen O. Murray -- The Balkan sworn virgin : a cross-gendered female role / Mildred Dickemann -- Some nineteenth-century reports of Islamic homosexualities / Stephen O. Murray -- Gender-defined homosexual role in sub-Saharan African Islamic cultures / Stephen O. Murray -- Institutionalized gender-crossing in Southern Iraq / Sigrid Wesphal-Hellbusch ; trans. Bradley Rose -- The Sohari khanith / Stephen O. Murray -- Two Baluchi buggas, a Sindhi zenana, and the status of hijras in contemporary Pakistan / Nauman Naqvi and Hasan Mujtaba -- The other side of midnight : Pakistani male prostitutes / Hasan Mujtaba -- Not-so-gay life in Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s / Badruddin Khan -- Two Islamic AIDS education organizations / Stephen O. Murray and Eric Allyn -- Conclusion / Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96035677
ISBN0814774679 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780814774670 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN0814774687 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780814774687 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ76.3.I75 M87 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold