Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic—visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Is

The first anthropological collection that reveals patterns of male and female homosexuality in the Muslim World The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in

Homosexuality is anathema to Islam – or so the majority of both believers and non-believers suppose. Throughout the Muslim world, it is met with hostility, wh

This book investigates the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period.

This anthology explores different genealogies of sexuality and questions some of the theoretical emphases and epistemic assumptions affecting current histories