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Sexuality and Islamic Spirituality in Early Malay Writings
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Sexuality and Islamic Spirituality in Early Malay Writings : A Textual History of Sex and Gender

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series Gender and Islam
ISBN-10 075564851X
ISBN-13 9780755648511
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Aug 21st, 2025
Print length 268 Pages
Ksh 15,800.00
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Based on Malay manuscripts and publications, this book examines the relationship between sex and Islamic spirituality since the seventeenth century in Southeast Asia

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By way of a prologue: Zulaikha the Paragon of Women''s Passion in Islam

I. Passion
1. Passionate Spirituality Through a Sensuous “Feminine” Beloved
2. Reclaiming Eroticism from, and Reading Spiritualism into Animal Poetry

II. Paradise
3. The Kitab Jimak: A Manual on the “Science of Women” and Paradise on Earth
4. The Path to Pleasure is Orderly, and not One of Careless Abandon
5. A Vaginal Viewpoint: “Orgasm is Half of What to Expect in Heaven”

III. Propriety
6. Syariah Poetics on the Essentials of Marriage, Flawless Sex and a Pure Body
7. The Chaste Body at the Cusp of 20th-Century Modernity
By Way of an Epilogue: Zawiyah the Paragon of Women''s Passionlessness in Islam

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