Queer Life and The Muslim Mainstream
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5588909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Kassem (0000-0001-6527-2304, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 429-452 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1064-2684 • E-ISSN: 1527-9375 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10642684-11978266 |
| OpenAlex | W4414945255 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 65 |
Queer Muslims exist. Yet they often dwell across margins of both the Islamic and the queer as they occupy positions deemed incommensurable. Through interpretive qualitative research with Shia Muslim hawzas - the "traditional" institutions authoring contemporary Shiism-and its scholars and teachers, this article explores the Islamic possibility of queer-embracing Islam. Identifying and analyzing the potentiality(ies) of both a queer-affirming and an anti-homophobic Islamic jurisprudence and related social formation, the article offers a critique of the stabilization of scholarly and jurisprudential Islam as essentially queer-exclusionary, situating this hegemonic discourse within the larger reification of Eurocentric modern/colonial secular progressiveness and forces of homocolonialism and homonationalism. Thinking alongside Shia ontotheology, the author concludes with the possibility of a dignified queer self differently entering the mainstream Muslim ummah in a liberatory praxis for both the queer as well as the Islamic
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |