IX. Orientalist Shi’ism and Literary Homoeroticism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Foreword 9
5. Introduction 11
6. I. The Qur’anic Ethics of “Nature”: Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity 19
7. II. Distressing Qur’anic Verses? 25
8. III. The Prophet: A Living Incarnation of Qur’anic Ethics 33
9. IV. Islamic Apocrypha Advocating the Stoning of “Sodomites” 45
10. V. Postcolonial Orientalisms 55
11. VI. “Abnormals”: From Cultural Diversity to Dogmatic Uniformity 61
12. VII. Towards a Structural Reevaluation of Cultural Values 65
13. VIII. Pan-Arabist Literary and Identity Censorship 75
14. IX. Orientalist Shi’ism and Literary Homoeroticism 81
15. X. Homonationalism and Performative Sexual Categorization 87
16. XI. A “Crisis” of Categories, Geopolitics or Civilization 101
17. Conclusion 107
18. Afterword 117
19. Bibliography 121
20. Index 129