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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784192503321

Autore

Maghen Ze'ev

Titolo

Virtues of the Flesh - Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence / / Ze'ev Maghen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005

ISBN

1-280-86706-X

9786610867066

90-474-0623-0

1-4337-0628-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Studies in Islamic Law and Society ; ; 23

Disciplina

297.5/66

Soggetti

Islam - Customs and practices

Islam - Doctrines

Islam - Rituals

Islamic law

Purity, Ritual - Islam

Sex - Religious aspects - Islam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Chapter One. Separate But Equal: The Erotic Ahdath as Desiderata; Chapter Two. Devil May Care: Abdelwahab Bouhdiba and the Demonization of Impurity; Chapter Three. Zayd and Zaynab Revisited: Bowdlerizing the Uswa Hasana; Chapter Four. The Steaming East: Franz Rosenthal and the Literature of Sexual Subversion; Chapter Five. '... If You Have Touched Women ...': The Root of the Controversy; Chapter Six. Kitab: Five Centuries of Logomachy; Chapter Seven. Sunna: Inside the Apostle's Abode; Chapter Eight. Ra'y: The Spectrum of Ratiocination

Chapter Nine. On Account of a Kiss: Tahara as Libidinal Regulator Chapter Ten. Palpation and Palpitation: The Further Breakdown of Mulamasa; Conclusion. Dancing in Chains; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Robust sexuality, profound spirituality and elaborate legalism are, at first glance, strange bedfellows. The conventional Western wisdom has



long conceived of these several modes as comprising an antagonistic trichotomy, in which each component is opposed to the others. Classical Islam, on the other hand, envisioned a unique system of cooperation between the sensual, the ethereal and the forensic. This study employs the vast and hitherto neglected literature of Islamic purity law as a looking glass through which to examine early Muslim attitudes to the romantic and erotic. Probing Qur'ān, Ḥadīth, Tafsīr and Fiqh, it opens a window on a world of unexpectedly explicit and unrestrainedly joyful sexual expression -- a world located squarely within the confines of God's sacred law and its elucidation.