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Homoeroticism and homosexuality in Islam: a review article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Sabine Schmidtke
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From the medieval confrontation between the Muslim world and Christendom to the present day, the moral and social institutions of the respective “ other” have been the subject of close cross-cultural attention. In particular, questions related to sexual morality, including the issue of homosexuality, were, and still are, used as a polemical focus for mutual denigration.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 260 - 266
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1999

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