TY - BOOK AU - Zahed,Ludovic-Mohamed AU - S.Bharat,Adi TI - Homosexuality, Transidentity, and Islam: A Study of Scripture Confronting the Politics of Gender and Sexuality SN - 9789048544080 AV - BP188 .H666 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Homosexuality KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Sex role KW - Electronic Books N1 - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Jan Jaap de Ruiter; Introduction; I. The Qur'anic Ethics of "Nature": Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity; 1a. Human Nature: Mirroring the Will of God; 1b. Condemnation of "Immoral" Practices; II. Distressing Qur'anic Verses?; 2a. The Original Sodomy: Forbidding Ritual Rape; 2b. The Absence of Female Homosexuality in the Qur'an; 2c. Positive Representations of Gender Minorities in the Qur'an; III. The Prophet: A Living Incarnation of Qur'anic Ethics; 3a. Was the Prophet Homophobic and Transphobic?; 3b. The Status of Mukhannathun: "Effeminate," Trans, or Gay?3c. The First "Sodomite": Neither Gay nor Trans, but a Rapist; IV. Islamic Apocrypha Advocating the Stoning of "Sodomites"; 4a. The Sectarian Ideology of Fatwas Associating "Sodomy" with Apostasy; 4b. A Former Mukhannath's Internalized Homophobia and Misogyny; 4c. What the Different Islamic Schools of Thought Advocate; V. Postcolonial Orientalisms; VI. "Abnormals": From Cultural Diversity to Dogmatic Uniformity; VII. Towards a Structural Reevaluation of Cultural Values; VIII. Pan-Arabist Literary and Identity Censorship; IX. Orientalist Shi'ism and Literary HomoeroticismX. Homonationalism and Performative Sexual Categorization; XI. A "Crisis" of Categories, Geopolitics or Civilization; Conclusion; Afterword; Adi S. Bharat; Bibliography; Index; List of Figures; Figure 1 Hadith classification; Figure 2 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths concerning mukhannathun; Figure 3 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths condemning 'sodomites'; Figure 4 Apocryphal hadiths concerning the execution or stoning of 'sodomites'; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2368015&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -