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Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 [EPUB ebook]

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Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic 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.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780226729909 ● Publisher University of Chicago Press ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5659628 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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