LEADER 02811nam 22007214a 450 001 9910820640903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-42686-9 010 $a9786612426865 010 $a0-226-72990-7 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226729909 035 $a(CKB)1000000000817828 035 $a(EBL)471853 035 $a(OCoLC)475493646 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000335086 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11272600 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000335086 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10271040 035 $a(PQKB)10434966 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000740565 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12327239 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000740565 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10702448 035 $a(PQKB)10825090 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC471853 035 $a(DE-B1597)525098 035 $a(OCoLC)748208887 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226729909 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL471853 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10349968 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL242686 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000817828 100 $a20050322d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBefore homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800 $eKhaled El-Rouayheb 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge. 311 $a0-226-72989-3 311 $a0-226-72988-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPederasts and pathics -- Aesthetes -- Sodomites. 330 $aAttitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic-visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El-Rouayheb 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. Drawing on poetry, biographical literature, medicine, dream interpretation, and Islamic texts, he shows that the culture of the period lacked the concept of homosexuality.