Before Homosexuality In The Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title 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.

• | By (Author): Khaled El-Rouayheb
• | Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2009
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0226729893
• | ISBN-13: 9780226729893