Virtues of the Flesh - Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence /
Maghen, Ze'ev,
Virtues of the Flesh - Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence / Ze'ev Maghen. - 1 online resource. - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 Studies in Islamic Law and Society ; 23 . - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. Studies in Islamic Law and Society ; 23. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Robust sexuality, profound spirituality and elaborate legalism are, at first glance, strange bedfellows. The conventional Western wisdom has long conceived of these several modes as comprising an antagonistic trichotomy, in which each component is opposed to the others. Classical Islam, on the other hand, envisioned a unique system of cooperation between the sensual, the ethereal and the forensic. This study employs the vast and hitherto neglected literature of Islamic purity law as a looking glass through which to examine early Muslim attitudes to the romantic and erotic. Probing Qur'ān, Ḥadīth, Tafsīr and Fiqh, it opens a window on a world of unexpectedly explicit and unrestrainedly joyful sexual expression -- a world located squarely within the confines of God's sacred law and its elucidation.
9789047406235 9789004140707
10.1163/9789047406235 DOI
Islam--Customs and practices.
Islam--Doctrines.
Islam--Rituals.
Islamic law.
Purity, Ritual--Islam.
Sex--Religious aspects--Islam.
BP188.4
297.5/66
Virtues of the Flesh - Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence / Ze'ev Maghen. - 1 online resource. - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 Studies in Islamic Law and Society ; 23 . - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. Studies in Islamic Law and Society ; 23. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Robust sexuality, profound spirituality and elaborate legalism are, at first glance, strange bedfellows. The conventional Western wisdom has long conceived of these several modes as comprising an antagonistic trichotomy, in which each component is opposed to the others. Classical Islam, on the other hand, envisioned a unique system of cooperation between the sensual, the ethereal and the forensic. This study employs the vast and hitherto neglected literature of Islamic purity law as a looking glass through which to examine early Muslim attitudes to the romantic and erotic. Probing Qur'ān, Ḥadīth, Tafsīr and Fiqh, it opens a window on a world of unexpectedly explicit and unrestrainedly joyful sexual expression -- a world located squarely within the confines of God's sacred law and its elucidation.
9789047406235 9789004140707
10.1163/9789047406235 DOI
Islam--Customs and practices.
Islam--Doctrines.
Islam--Rituals.
Islamic law.
Purity, Ritual--Islam.
Sex--Religious aspects--Islam.
BP188.4
297.5/66