03745nam 22007451 450 991045102820332120210721145055.01-280-86706-X978661086706690-474-0623-01-4337-0628-810.1163/9789047406235(CKB)1000000000334948(EBL)280865(OCoLC)191953121(SSID)ssj0000267839(PQKBManifestationID)11937667(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267839(PQKBWorkID)10212852(PQKB)10408706(MiAaPQ)EBC280865(Au-PeEL)EBL280865(CaPaEBR)ebr10171649(CaONFJC)MIL86706(OCoLC)437175370(nllekb)BRILL9789047406235(EXLCZ)99100000000033494820210731d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrVirtues of the Flesh - Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence /Ze'ev MaghenLeiden; Boston :BRILL,2005.1 online resource (310 p.)Studies in Islamic Law and Society ;23Description based upon print version of record.90-04-14070-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 RatiocinationChapter 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; IndexRobust 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.Studies in Islamic Law and Society ;23.IslamCustoms and practicesIslamDoctrinesIslamRitualsIslamic lawPurity, RitualIslamSexReligious aspectsIslamElectronic books.IslamCustoms and practices.IslamDoctrines.IslamRituals.Islamic law.Purity, RitualIslam.SexReligious aspectsIslam.297.5/66Maghen Ze'ev692406NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910451028203321Virtues of the Flesh1245948UNINA