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Sexuality and Islamic Spirituality in Early Malay Writings
A Textual History of Sex and Gender
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Sexuality and Islamic Spirituality in Early Malay Writings
A Textual History of Sex and Gender
About this book
It is argued here that before the extensive formalization of sharia laws from the late nineteenth century onwards, Islam was prominently influenced by elements of enchantment and mysticism, mirrored in its textual portrayal of passionate and sexual relations.
This book's analysis is based on Malay manuscripts and texts about the body, sex, and sexuality. These include religious guidebooks on sexual techniques and etiquette, of which some are translated from the original Arabic or Persian, but almost all of which have been adapted for local Malay relevance. Also analyzed are collections of Malay erotic poetry from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and the only known female-authored early twentieth-century text on sex and women's sexual pleasure.
Over the centuries changing sexual norms and attitudes in the Malay world has disengaged sex and sexuality from being a crucial component of faith and spirituality-gradually receding into the discreet margins of contemporary discourse on gender relations.
This book's analysis is based on Malay manuscripts and texts about the body, sex, and sexuality. These include religious guidebooks on sexual techniques and etiquette, of which some are translated from the original Arabic or Persian, but almost all of which have been adapted for local Malay relevance. Also analyzed are collections of Malay erotic poetry from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and the only known female-authored early twentieth-century text on sex and women's sexual pleasure.
Over the centuries changing sexual norms and attitudes in the Malay world has disengaged sex and sexuality from being a crucial component of faith and spirituality-gradually receding into the discreet margins of contemporary discourse on gender relations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Malay Names
- By Way of a Prologue: Zulaikha the Paragon of Womenās Passion in Islam
- Zulaikha the Paragon of Womenās Passion in Islam
- Part I: Passion
- Chapter 1: Passionate Spirituality through a Sensuous āFeminineā Beloved
- Chapter 2: Reclaiming Eroticism from, and Reading Spiritualism into Animal Poetry
- Part II: Paradise
- Chapter 3: The Kitab Jimak: A Manual on the āScience of Womenā and Paradise on Earth
- Chapter 4: The Path to Pleasure Is Orderly, and Not One of Careless Abandon
- Chapter 5: A Vaginal Viewpoint: āOrgasm is Half of What to Expect in Heavenā
- Part III: Propriety
- Chapter 6: Syariah Poetics on the Essentials of Marriage, Flawless Sex, and a Pure Body
- Chapter 7: The Chaste Body at the Cusp of Twentieth-Century Modernity
- By Way of an Epilogue: Zawiyah as the Paragon of Womenās Passionlessness in Islam
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Authors
- Index