This innovative book outlines the great complexity, variety and difference of male identities in Islamic societies. From the Taliban orphanages of Afghanistan to the cafes of Morocco, from the experience of couples at infertility clinics in Egypt to that of Iraqi conscripts, it shows how the masculine gender is constructed and negotiated in the Islamic Ummah. It goes far beyond the traditional notion that Islamic masculinities are inseparable from the control of women, and shows how the relationship between spirituality and masculinity is experienced quite differently from the prevailing Western norms.
- ISBN13 9780312235093
- Publish Date 1 January 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 February 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 1st ed. 2090
- Format Paperback
- Pages 264
- Language English