Islamic Law and Muslim Same-Sex Unions (eBook)

Hussein Abdullatif, Junaid Jahangir (Autoren)

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2016
294 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8938-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book builds a case for Muslim same-sex unions for the fulfillment of gay and lesbian Muslims’ human need for intimacy, affection, and companionship. In constructing this case, the book extensively engages with the Muslim tradition, drawing on the Qur’an, Hadith, and jurisprudence as well as contemporary scholarship.

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This book is written with the objective of reasonably addressing the need of Muslim gays and lesbians for a life which involves intimacy, affection and companionship within the confines of a legal contract. Contemporary conservative Muslim leaders unreasonably promote false marriages with straight spouses, failing which they prescribe the "e;solution"e; of permanent celibacy as a "e;test."e; This book delves into an extensive scholarship on the same sources that conservative Muslim leaders draw on-the Qur'an, Hadith and jurisprudence. It is argued that the primary sources of Muslim knowledge addressed sexual acts between the same gender in the context of inhospitality, exploitation, coercion and disease, but not true same-sex unions; past Muslim scholarship is silent on the issue of sexual orientation and Muslim same-sex unions. The arguments of contemporary conservative Muslim leaders are deconstructed and the case for Muslim same-sex unions is made based on jurisprudential principles and thorough arguments from within the Muslim tradition.

Autor

Junaid Jahangir is assistant professor of economics at MacEwan University.Hussein Abdullatif is a pediatric endocrinologist affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Alabama and University of Alabama Hospital.

Inhalt

Foreword, Scott Siraj al-Haqq KugleIntroduction1. Some Clarifications2. Analysis of the Relevant Qur’anic Verses3. Analyzing the Hadith Tradition—The Prophet, Companions and the Followers4. Sunnī Narratives on Heterosexual Anal Intercourse—Ityān bi-l-dubur5. Revisiting Muslim Jurisprudence6. Addressing the Opinions of Contemporary Scholars7. Conclusion: Toward a Queer-Positive Muslim Jurisprudence

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2016
• Vorwort: Scott Siraj Al-Haqq Kugle
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: gay marriage • Islam • Islam and Homosexuality • Islamic Jurisprudence • Islamic Law • LGBT Muslims • Muslim gay marriage • Muslim same-sex unions • queer Muslims • Religion and Sexuality • Same-sex unions
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8938-7 / 0739189387
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8938-2 / 9780739189382