CHAPTER 2. The Will Not to Know

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. PART I. Introduction to Islamic Homosexualities
4. CHAPTER 1. Introduction 3
5. CHAPTER 2. The Will Not to Know 14
6. CHAPTER 3. Precursors of Islamic Male Homosexualities 55
7. CHAPTER 4. Muhammad and Male Homosexuality 87
8. CHAPTER 5. Woman-Woman Love in Islamic Societies 97
9. PART II. Literary Studies
10. CHAPTER 6. Vision and Passion 107
11. Chapter 7. Corporealizing Medieval Persian and Turkish Tropes 132
12. Chapter 8. Male Love and Islamic Law in Arab Spain 142
13. PART III. Historical Studies
14. Chapter 9. Male Homosexuality, Inheritance Rules, and the Status of Women in Medieval Egypt 161
15. CHAPTER 10. Homosexuality among Slave Elites in Ottoman Turkey 174
16. CHAPTER 11. Male Homosexuality in Ottoman Albania 187
17. CHAPTER 12. The Balkan Sworn Virgin 197
18. CHAPTER 13. Some Nineteenth-Century Reports of Islamic Homosexualities 204
19. CHAPTER 14. Gender-Defined Homosexual Roles in Sub-Saharan African Islamic Cultures 222
20. PART IV. Anthropological Studies
21. CHAPTER 15. Institutionalized Gender-Crossing in Southern Iraq 233
22. CHAPTER 16. The Sohari Khanith 244
23. CHAPTER 17. Male Actresses in Islamic Parts of Indonesia and the Southern Philippines 256
24. CHAPTER 18. Two Baluchi Buggas, a Sindhi Zenana, and the Status of Hijras in Contemporary Pakistan 262
25. CHAPTER 19. The Other Side of Midnight 267
26. CHAPTER 20. Not-So-Gay Life in Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s 275
27. CHAPTER 21. Two Islamic AIDS Education Organizations 297
28. CHAPTER 22. Conclusion 302
29. Appendix 321
30. Authors 323
31. Index 325