Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title 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.

• | Author: Khaled El-Rouayheb
• | Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2009
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780226729893
• | ISBN-10: 0226729893