Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16617814 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria N Meyer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 280-282 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800, Khaled El-Rouayheb, 2005 |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20478342 |
| OpenAlex | W581837857 |
| Language | EN |
Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic - it was visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El-Rouayheb argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a timeless, self-evident fact to which a particular culture reacts with some degree of tolerance or intolerance. Drawing on poetry, biographical literature, medicine, dream interpretation, and Islamic texts, he shows that the culture of the period lacked the concept of homosexuality
Anachronism · Art · Dream · Homosexuality · Interpretation (philosophy · Islam · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Theology · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Philosophy · Psychology
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