Notes
Chapter 1: Home: Past and Present
1 This quote has been attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and its origins has a rather complex history. Please see http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/01/11/what-lies-within/ (accessed 7 July 2014).
2 Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity, Violence and the Need to Belong, translated from the French by Barbara Bray, New York: Arcade Publishing, 2000, 102.
3 Al-Ghazali, On the Manners relating to Eating, Kitab adab al-akl, Book XI of The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Ihya’‘Ulum al-din, translated with an introduction and notes by D. Johnson-Davies, Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2012, 30.
4 William Mckane, Al-Ghazali’s Book of Fear and Hope, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1962, 22. I have made a couple of minor changes to this translation for ease of reading.
5 Ghazali, On the Manners, 19.
6 Franz Rosenthal, Knowledge Triumphant, The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam, Leiden: Brill Classics, 2006, 2.
7 http://40hadithnawawi.com/index.php/the-hadiths/hadith-26 (accessed 7 July 2014).
8 http://hadithqudsi.sacredhadith.com/hadith-qudsi-18/ (accessed 7 July 2014).
Chapter 2: Marriage and Desire
1 Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth, London: Penguin Books, 2011, 42.
2 Mitch Albom, Tuesday with Morrie, London: Time Warner Paperbacks, 2003, 127.
3 William Irvine, On Desire: Why We Want What We Want, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 2.
4 Murtada Mutahari, Islamic Sciences, London: ICAS Press, 2002, 205.
5 Ibid.
6 Shahzad Bashir, ‘Islamic Tradition and Celibacy’, in Carl Olson (ed.), Celibacy and Religious Traditions, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 140.
7 Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab al-nikah, Vol. 7, Jeddah: Maktaba Darrussalam, 1997, 19 (Arabic–English translation by Muhammad Muhsin Khan).
8 Ghazali, Kitab Adab al-nikah in Ihya’‘Ulum al-din, Vol. 2, Damascus: Alam al-Kutub, 1992, 25. Further references to this work in this chapter will be abbreviated to Nikah.
9 Ibid., 26.
10 Abu Talib al-Makki, Qut al-qulub, Sustenance of the hearts, 2 vols, Cairo: Mustafa al-Babi al-Halabi, 1961, 2:528.
11 Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab al-nikah, 20.
12 Roger Scruton, Sexual Desire, reprint, New York: Continuum, 2006, 62–3.
13 Ibid., 67.
14 Ibid., 359.
15 Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Sexuality in Islam, London: Saqi Books, 1998, 95.
16 Yossef Rapoport, Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 4.
17 Theodore W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951. English translation London: Verso, 1974, 131.
18 Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism, New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1979, 188.
19 Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim, London: Faber and Faber, 1984, 289.
20 Orhan Pamuk, Other Colours, London: Faber and Faber, 2007, 34.
21 Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism, 11.
22 Scott Peck, The Road Less Travelled and Beyond, New York: Simon and Schuster Inc., 1997, 34–5.
23 Karen V. Kukil, The Journals of Sylvia P...