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Arguing that Islam is a lyrical view of life in which sexuality enjoys a privileged status, this work represents an attempt to integrate the religious and the sexual. It examines the problem of whether this harmony of sexuality and religious faith is achieved in practice.
Born in 1932 in Kairouan, Tunisia, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba is professor of Islamic sociology at the University of Tunis, where he is also director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Economiques et Sociales. He has served as an adviser to international organizations such as UNESCO and the United Nations. He was awarded the Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture in 2004.
Preface vii
Part I: The Islamic view of sexuality 1
1 The Quran and the question of sexuality 7
2 Sexual prohibitions in Islam 14
3 The eternal and Islamic feminine 19
4 The frontier of the sexes 30
5 Purity lost, purity regained 43
6 Commerce with the invisible 58
7 The infinite orgasm 72
8 The sexual and the sacral 88
Part II: Sexual practice in Islam 101
9 Sexuality and sociality 103
10 Variations on eroticism: misogyny, mysticism and `mujun’ 116
11 Erotology 140
12 Certain practices 159
13 In the kingdom of the mothers 212
Conclusion 231
Notes 250
Bibliography 273