Virtues of the Flesh - Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence /

Robust sexuality, profound spirituality and elaborate legalism are, at first glance, strange bedfellows. The conventional Western wisdom has long conceived of these several modes as comprising an antagonistic trichotomy, in which each component is opposed to the others. Classical Islam, on the other...

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Main Author: Maghen, Ze'ev (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2005.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Studies in Islamic Law and Society ; 23.

Subjects:

Islam > Customs and practices.

Islam > Doctrines.

Islam > Rituals.

Islamic law.