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

by Maznah Mohamad

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

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075564851X
• ISBN13: 9780755648511
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"