Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, an... - Will Roscoe, Stephen O. Murray
The first anthropological collection that reveals patterns of male and female homosexuality in the Muslim WorldThe dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of…
Specifikacia Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, an... - Will Roscoe, Stephen O. Murray
The first anthropological collection that reveals patterns of male and female homosexuality in the Muslim WorldThe dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality.The first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological perspective, Homosexuality in the Muslim World reveals that patterns of male and female homosexuality have existed and often flourished within the Islamic world. Indeed, same-sex relations have, until quite recently, been much more tolerated under Islam than in the Christian West. Based on the latest