TY - BOOK AU - Rahman,Momin TI - Homosexualities, Muslim cultures and modernity /Momin Rahman T2 - Palgrave politics of identity and citizenship series SN - 9781137002969 AV - BP188 .H666 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - [Basingstoke] PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Homosexuality KW - Social aspects KW - Islamic countries KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Civilization, Arab KW - 21st century KW - Muslim gays KW - Homophobia KW - Gays KW - Political activity KW - Muslims KW - Social conditions KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; In Search of My Mother's Garden: Reflections on Migration, Gender, Sexuality and Muslim Identity --; Islam versus Homosexuality as Modernity --; Problematic Modernization: the Extent and Formation of Muslim Antipathy to Homosexuality --; Traditions and Transformations of Muslim Homo-eroticism --; Queer Muslims in the Context of Contemporary Globalized LGBTIQ Identity --; The Politics of Identity and the Ends of Liberation --; Beginnings; 2; b N2 - 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 euro-centric conceits of queer political and social theory UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=786530&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -