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

List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 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 Bibliography Contributors

About the author

Maznah Mohamad is Honorary Fellow and former Associate Professor of the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her authored books include The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life: A Study of Bureaucratic Islam in Malaysia (2020) and Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia (2006).Syahirah Rasheed has a PhD in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore. She has an MA in development studies (International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam), specialising in women, gender and development. Her research fields are in medical anthropology, sexual and reproductive health, and feminist epistemology.

Product details

• Authors: Maznah Mohamad, Mohamad Maznah, Syahirah Rasheed
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 21.08.2025
• EAN: 9780755648511
• ISBN: 978-0-7556-4851-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Gender and Islam
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Malaysia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Islamic Life & Practice, Gender Studies: Men, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, Islamic life and practice