Virtues of the flesh : passion and purity in early Islamic jurisprudence / by Ze'ev Maghen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maghen, Zeev.

Series:

Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 23.

Studies in Islamic law and society, 1384-1130 ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Purity, Ritual--Islam.

Purity, Ritual.

Sex--Religious aspects--Islam.

Sex.

Islam--Doctrines.

Islam.

Islam--Rituals.

Islam--Customs and practices.

Islamic law.

Hadith.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-292) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-86706-X

9786610867066

90-474-0623-0

1-4337-0628-8

OCLC:

191953121

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047406235 DOI