Virtues of the Flesh - Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence : Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence.
Material type: TextPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2004Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (310 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781433706288Subject(s): Hadith | Islam -- Customs and practices | Islam -- Doctrines | Islam -- Rituals | Islamic law | Purity, Ritual -- Islam | Sex -- Religious aspects -- IslamGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Virtues of the Flesh - Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence : Passion and Purity in Early Islamic JurisprudenceDDC classification: 297.5/66 LOC classification: BP188.4 -- .M34 2005ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Preface -- Chapter One. Separate But Equal: The Erotic Ahdāth 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. Kitāb: 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: Tahāra as Libidinal Regulator -- Chapter Ten. Palpation and Palpitation: The Further Breakdown of Mulāmasa -- Conclusion. Dancing in Chains -- Bibliography -- Index.
This volume focuses on the portions of Muslim purity jurisprudence that deal with matters libidinal -- mulamasa (the ritual result of contact with the opposite sex) and janaba (ceremonial defilement following cohabitation) -- and examines their implications for the Islamic outlook on sexuality.
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