| Description |
1 online resource (x, 298 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in Islamic law and society,
1384-1130 ;
v. 23
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Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 23.
1384-1130
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index. |
| Contents |
Separate but equal: the erotic Aḥdāth as desiderata -- Devil may care: Abdelwahab Bouhdiba and the demonization of impurity -- Zayd and Zaynab revisited: bowdlerizing the Uswa Ḥasana -- The steaming East: Franz Rosenthal and the literature of sexual subversion -- ' ... If you have touched women ... ': the root of the controversy -- Kitāb: five centuries of logomachy -- Sunna: inside the apostle's abode -- Ra'y: the spectrum of ratiocination -- On account of a kiss: Ṭahāra as libidinal regulator -- Palpation and palpitation: the further breakdown of Mulāmasa -- Dancing in chains. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Purity, Ritual -- Islam.
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Purity, Ritual -- Islam. |
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Sex -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Sex -- Religious aspects -- Islam. |
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Islam -- Doctrines.
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Islam -- Doctrines. |
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Islam -- Rituals.
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Islam -- Rituals. |
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Islam -- Customs and practices.
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Islam -- Customs and practices. |
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Islamic law.
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Islamic law. |
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Hadith.
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Hadith. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Maghen, Zeʼev. Virtues of the flesh. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005 (DLC) 2004054500 |
| ISBN |
9789047406235 (electronic book) |
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9047406230 (electronic book) |
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1433706288 |
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9781433706288 |
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9789004140707 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004140700 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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128086706X |
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9781280867064 |
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9004140700 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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