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Abdelwahab Bouhdiba

Sexuality in Islam

In this classic work, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba asserts that Islam is a lyrical view of life in which sexuality enjoys a privileged status. Drawing on both Arabic and Western sources and seeking to integrate the religious and the sexual, Bouhdiba describes the place of sexuality in the traditional Islamic view of the world and examines whether a harmony of sexuality and religious faith is achieved in practice. Beginning with the Quran, Bouhdiba confronts the question of male supremacy in Islam and the strict separation of the masculine and the feminine. He considers purification practices; Islamic attitudes towards homosexuality, concubinage and legal marriage; and sexual taboos laid down by the Quran. Bouhdiba assesses contemporary sexual practice, including eroticism, misogyny and mysticism, and concludes that the ideal Islamic model of sexuality has been debased. 'Readable and informative … an imaginative and off-beat sourcebook' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
420 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
Publisher
Saqi Books
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  • Nazia Iqbalhas quoted6 years ago
    using our evil thoughts and desires and turning them against us. We have to admire the highly systematic, perfectly organized way in which Iblis operates, for his strength lies there. As a good ‘manager’ he has structured his strong army of nearly five thousand million little devils (70,000 of Iblis’s own children, each having in turn 70,000 smaller devils). Despite demographic expansion, mankind is still surrounded by evil. There are more devils than men in the world! Indeed this makes possible a systematic ‘partitioning’ of mankind by a series of ‘commandos’ specialized in
  • Nazia Iqbalhas quoted6 years ago
    The devil is a tempter, and without being strictly speaking the creator of evil within us, he is highly skilled

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