Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850 - 1780 A.D. (Samar Habib)

Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850 - 1780 A.D. (Samar Habib)

This publication discovers and brings to the English reader an array of surviving texts penned by Muslim scholars discussing female same‐sex desire. From the tolerant days of the Abbasid caliphate to the celebratory text of Yusuf Tifashi in the thirteenth century and onwards toward growing strictures and greater intolerance, Arabo-Islamic Texts reveals a dynamic and lively discourse on sexuality in the Arabo-Islamic empire. The English translation of a lecture delivered in Arabic in Haifa by Samar Habib is also included in this book.