Author: Souaiaia, A.E.

Source: Hawwa, Volume 5, Numbers 2-3, 2007 , pp. 262-288(27)

Publisher: BRILL

Abstract:

This paper explores the concepts of sexuality and obscenity in Islamic traditions and the way cultures and society shape the value systems that judge beauty, propriety, and legality. I conclude that societal values are preserved in emerging religious teachings—by way of expanding categories for acts, rules, and values and by relying on practice-based consensus; not on negotiated consensus. As such, in Islam, obscenity and profanity become nuisances that disturb individuals' spiritual balance and unwanted variables that destabilize social equilibrium.

Keywords: SEXUALITY IN ISLAM; OBSCENITY IN ISLAM; WOMEN IN ISLAM; PROPRIETY IN ISLAM; MORALITY IN ISLAM

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920807782912544

Affiliations: 1: University of Iowa

Publication date: 2007-11-01

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