ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1985. Beginning with the Qur’an, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba confronts the question of male supremacy in Islam, and the strict separation of the masculine and the feminine. He gives an account of purification practices, of Islamic attitudes towards homosexuality, concubinage, legal marriage and of the sexual taboos laid down by the Qur’an. He assesses present-day sexual practice, including eroticism, misogyny and mysticism and concludes that the sexual alienation – and even oppression – of modern Muslim women is the result not of the Islamic vision of sexuality, but of social and economic pressures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |99 pages
The Islamic View of Sexuality
chapter |7 pages
The Quran and the Question of Sexuality
chapter |5 pages
Sexual Prohibitions in Islam
chapter |11 pages
The Eternal and Islamic Feminine
chapter |13 pages
The Frontier of the Sexes
chapter |15 pages
Purity Lost, Purity Regained
chapter |14 pages
Commerce with the invisible
chapter |16 pages
The Infinite Orgasm
chapter |13 pages
The Sexual and the Sacral
part |129 pages
Sexual Practice in Islam