تاريخ النشر: 01/01/1998
الناشر: دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر
نبذة الناشر:This work argues that Islam is a lyrical view of life in which sexuality enjoys a privileged status. It represents a permanent attempt to integrate the religious and the sexual, and author examines the problem of whether this harmony of sexual ecstasy and religious faith is ever achieved in practice. ...Drawing on the immense body of literature devoted to the subject in Arabic, and also on many Western sources, he describes the place of sexuality in the traditional Islamic view of the world.
Beginning with the Qur’an, Professor Bouhdiba confronts the question of male supremacy in Islam, and the strict separation of the masculine and the feminine. He gives an account of purification practices, of Islamic attitudes towards homosexuality, concubinage, legal marriage, and of the sexual taboos laid down by the Qur’an. He assesses present-day sexual practice, including eroticism, misogyny and mysticism, and concludes that the ideal Islamic model of sexuality has been debased. The sexual alienation-and even oppression-of modern Muslim women is the result not of the Islamic vision of sexuality, but of social and economic pressures. إقرأ المزيد