Homosexualities, Muslim cultures and modernity / Momin Rahman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rahman, Momin, author.

Contributor:

Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Palgrave politics of identity and citizenship series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Islam.

Homosexuality.

Homophobia--Religious aspects--Islam.

Homophobia.

Gay people--Political activity.

Gay people.

Muslims--Social conditions.

Muslims.

Gays--Political activity.

Physical Description:

x, 233 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

No one can doubt that Muslim cultures and Muslim populations are under intense scrutiny in the West and worldwide. Moreover, queer politics has been increasingly drawn into this contemporary Islamophobia. This book presents a detailed interdisciplinary study of the issues surrounding homosexuality and Muslim cultures, drawing on sociological theories of modernity and modernization, evidence of Muslim homo-eroticism in historical and contemporary context, and contemporary political ideas of queer politics, multiculturalism and international development. The book presents an original theoretical framework that describes the ways in which both queer and Muslim politics are caught up in a process of triangulation that asserts the superiority of Western civilization. Using an intersectional framework, it also begins to map a way out of this oppositional understanding of homosexuality and Islam, both by drawing on the evidence of the complexity of lived experience for Queer Muslims and by challenging the Eurocentric conceits of queer political and social theory. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 In Search of My Mother's Garden: Reflections on Migration, Gender, Sexuality and Muslim Identity 9

Introduction 9

History, narratives and narrators 10

Migration 13

Identities 15

Gender 17

My mother's garden 21

Not quite Muslim, not quite gay, towards a queer intersectionality 24

2 Islam versus Homosexuality as Modernity 27

Introduction 27

The drumbeats of Islamic 'otherness' 29

Democracy as Western exceptionalism 34

Equality and secularism versus multiculturalism in the context of gender 37

Sexual diversity as the marker of Islamic otherness? 42

The conceits of the West and the resistance of the East 47

3 Problematic Modernization: The Extent and Formation of Muslim Antipathy to Homosexuality 49

Introduction 49

Muslim regulation of homosexuality at the national and international level 51

The attitudes of Muslim majority and minority populations 56

Explaining Muslim antipathy through the modernization thesis 59

The complexities of modernization and reactions to homosexuality 62

Understanding Muslim homophobia in the contexts of modernity and Islamophobla 66

4 Traditions and Transformations of Muslim Homo-eroticism 70

Introduction 70

Homo-eroticism in traditional Muslim cultures 72

The transformation of Muslim homo-eroticism through the 'Gay International' 78

Modernity misunderstood? Colonialism, post-colonial cultures and the regulation of the sexual 82

Connected histories: the wider sociological basis of hoinosexualization during modernity 88

Homosexualization beyond westernization and the politics of Muslim identity 92

5 Queer Muslims in the Context of Contemporary Globalized LGBTIQ Identity 94

Introduction 94

The world 'they' have won 95

Connected contemporary histories: queer Muslims in Muslim majority cultures 102

Connected contemporary histories: queer Muslims in the West 108

From connected histories to queer Muslims as modem inter sectional subjects 111

Towards an intersectional modernity? 115

6 The Politics of Identity and the Ends of Liberation 118

Introduction 118

The triangulalion of Western exceptionalism: homocolonialism, Muslim homophobia and monoculturalism 119

The political presumptions of homocolonialism: 'coming out' and the essential context of political identity 125

Beyond homocolonialism: the ends of liberation and equality as resource 130

Arriving at the terrain of dialogue and recognizing queer as privilege 135

7 Beginnings 137

Introduction 137

The homocolouialist 'test' for internationalized Western queer politics and consciousness 138

Hoinocolouialisin in multiculturalism 144

Embracing Western exceptionalism through homocolonialism: challenges for Muslim consciousness and politics 149

The past and future Imperfect, tense 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781137002952

1137002956

OCLC:

874927737

Publisher Number:

99957330165