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

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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsBy way of a prologue: Zulaikha the Paragon of Women's Passion in IslamI. Passion 1. Passionate Spirituality Through a Sensuous “Feminine” Beloved2. Reclaiming Eroticism from, and Reading Spiritualism into Animal PoetryII. Paradise3. The Kitab Jimak: A Manual on the “Science of Women” and Paradise on Earth4. The Path to Pleasure is Orderly, and not One of Careless Abandon5. A Vaginal Viewpoint: “Orgasm is Half of What to Expect in Heaven”III. Propriety6. Syariah Poetics on the Essentials of Marriage, Flawless Sex and a Pure Body7. The Chaste Body at the Cusp of 20th-Century ModernityBy Way of an Epilogue: Zawiyah the Paragon of Women's Passionlessness in IslamBibliographyContributors