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Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 Khaled El-Rouayheb
Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
Khaled El-Rouayheb
Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a timeless, self-evident fact to which a particular culture reacts with some degree of tolerance or intolerance.
208 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 1, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226729886 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 158 × 21 mm · 484 g |
| Language | English |