TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maghen,Ze'ev
TI  - Virtues of the Flesh - Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789047406235
AV  - BP188.4 
U1  - 297.5/66 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Islam
KW  - Customs and practices
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - Rituals
KW  - Islamic law
KW  - Purity, Ritual
KW  - Sex
KW  - Religious aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047406235
ER  -