Islamic homosexualities: culture, history, and literature

Introduction / Will Roscoe and Stephen O. Murray

The will not to know : Islamic accommodations of male homosexuality / Stephen O. Murray

Precursors of Islamic male homosexuality / Will Roscoe

Muhammad and male homosexuality / Jim Wafer

Woman-woman love in Islamic societies / Stephen O. Murray

Vision and passion : the symbolism of male love in Islamic mystical literature / Jim Wafer

Corporealizing medieval Persian and Turkish tropes / Stephen O. Murray

Male love and Islamic law in Arab Spain / Louis Crompton

Male homosexuality, inheritance rules, and the status of women in medieval Egypt : the case of the Mamlūks / Stephen O. Murray

Homosexuality among slave elites in Ottoman Turkey / Stephen O. Murray

Male homosexuality in Ottoman Albania / Stephen O. Murray

The Balkan sworn virgin : a cross-gendered female role / Mildred Dickemann

Some nineteenth-century reports of Islamic homosexualities / Stephen O. Murray

Gender-defined homosexual role in sub-Saharan African Islamic cultures / Stephen O. Murray

Institutionalized gender-crossing in Southern Iraq / Sigrid Wesphal-Hellbusch ; trans. Bradley Rose

The Sohari khanith / Stephen O. Murray

Two Baluchi buggas, a Sindhi zenana, and the status of hijras in contemporary Pakistan / Nauman Naqvi and Hasan Mujtaba

The other side of midnight : Pakistani male prostitutes / Hasan Mujtaba

Not-so-gay life in Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s / Badruddin Khan

Two Islamic AIDS education organizations / Stephen O. Murray and Eric Allyn

Conclusion / Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe.