Sexuality in Islam

by Abdelwahab Bouhdiba

Overview

Originally published in 1985.Beginning with the Qur’an, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba confronts the question of male supremacy in Islam, and the strict separation of the masculine and the feminine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135030377
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	603 KB

About the Author

Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Alan Sheridan

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I: The Islamic view of sexuality
1. The Quran and the question of sexuality
2. Sexual prohibitions in Islam
3. The eternal and Islamic feminine
4. The frontier of the sexes
5. Purity lost, purity regained
6. Commerce with the invisible
7. The infinite orgasm
8. The sexual and the sacral

Part II: Sexual practice in Islam
9. Sexuality and sociality
10. Variations on eroticism: misogyny, mysticism and 'mujun'
11. Erotology
12. Certain practices
13. In the kingdom of the mothers

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

Bouhdiba (Islamic sociology, U. of Tunis) argues that Islam is a lyrical view of life in which sexuality enjoys a privileged status. He ponders on whether the desired harmony between sexual ecstasy and religious faith is ever achieved in practice. He also addresses questions such as male supremacy, the strict separation of sexes, homosexuality, and sexual taboos laid down by the Qur'an. Translated from the French edition published by Presses Universitaires de France in 1975. No index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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