Reclaiming alterity: strangeness and the queering of Islam in medieval and early modern Spain

This essay argues for the reclamation of radical alterity or the intentional embracing of difference/otherness/strangeness by Muslims as a location of solidarity with marginalized communities, who have been historically ostracized due to sexuality. As the initial social location of Islam vis-á-vis m...

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Main Author: Hernández Peña, E. J. (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2016]
In: Theology & sexuality
Year: 2016, Volume: 22, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 42-56
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Spain / Islam / Christianity / The Other / Homosexuality / History 711-1614
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
FD Contextual theology
KAA Church history
KBH Iberian Peninsula
NCF Sexual ethics
Further subjects:B Muslim alterity
B strangeness
B Otherness
B Muslim Spain
B queer Islam
B Radical Alterity
B al-Andalus
B Spain
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
Parallel Edition:Electronic