Sexuality in Islam

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I: The Islamic view of sexuality; 1 The Quran and the question of sexuality; 2 Sexual prohibitions in Islam; 3 The eternal and Islamic feminine; 4 The frontier of the sexes; 5 Purity lost, purity regained; 6 Commerce with the invisible; 7 The infinite orgasm; 8 The sexual and the sacral; Part II: Sexual practice in Islam; 9 Sexuality and sociality; 10 Variations on eroticism: misogyny, mysticism and 'mujun'; 11 Erotology; 12 Certain practices; 13 In the kingdom of the mothers; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.;In this classic work, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba asserts that Islam is a lyrical view of life in which sexuality enjoys a privileged status. Drawing on both Arabic and Western sources and seeking to integrate the religious and the sexual, Bouhdiba describes the place of sexuality in the traditional Islamic view of the world and examines whether a harmony of sexuality and religious faith is achieved in practice. Beginning with the Quran, Bouhdiba confronts the question of male supremacy in Islam and the strict separation of the masculine and the feminine. He considers purification practices; Islamic. Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface Part I: The Islamic view of sexuality 1 The Quran and the question of sexuality 2 Sexual prohibitions in Islam 3 The eternal and Islamic feminine 4 The frontier of the sexes 5 Purity lost, purity regained 6 Commerce with the invisible 7 The infinite orgasm 8 The sexual and the sacral Part II: Sexual practice in Islam 9 Sexuality and sociality 10 Variations on eroticism: misogyny, mysticism and 'mujun' 11 Erotology 12 Certain practices 13 In the kingdom of the mothers Conclusion Notes Bibliography.