Sexuality and Islamic Spirituality in Early Malay Writings
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4851-1 (ISBN)
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There are few studies on the historical relationship between gender and Islam in Southeast Asia. This book argues that between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries - before the formalisation of sharia laws - Islam was heavily influenced by elements of enchantment and mysticism, and that this was mirrored in the portrayal and experience of gender relations and sexuality.
The analysis is based on handwritten manuscripts and published books about the body, sex and sexuality written in the Malay language. These include sex manuals from the seventeenth century, translated from the original Arabic or Persian and adapted for local relevance, as well as advice literature and prescriptions on topics such as male impotency and low libido. Also included is analysis of the first Malay language dictionaries from the nineteenth century - where there are lengthy descriptions of terms surrounding heterosexual, transgender and homosexual acts - and a nineteenth-century text on sex and women’s sexual pleasure, written by a woman from the island on Riau.
The author's analysis of these primary texts highlight the changing sexual norms and attitudes held in the Malay world and the ways in which sex and sexuality were configured as a component of faith and spirituality.
Maznah Mohamad is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. She previously worked at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia and with the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life: A Study of Bureaucratic Islam in Malaysia (2020) and co-authored Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia: An Unsung (R)evolution (2006). She has researched and published on Malaysian feminism, Islamic marriage and divorce, and gender and electoral politics.
1. Introduction: Islam, Gender and Sexuality in Historical, Geographical and Social Contexts
2. Archiving Texts and Manuscripts an Sex: Their Relevance for a Study of Islam in the Malay World
3. Guides on Faith Through Pleasure: ‘Book On Coition’ And The ‘Science Of Women’
4. Prescriptions and Advice for a Potent Malehood
5. An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Sex and Sexuality by Raja Ali Haji
6. The Ultimate Women’s Guide to Sexual Power and Control by Khatijah Terung
7. Conclusion: “The Obedient Wives Club”: Islam, Women and Sex In Contemporary Malaysia
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.8.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Gender and Islam |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7556-4851-X / 075564851X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7556-4851-1 / 9780755648511 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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