Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs) Review

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Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs) ReviewThis book is a collection of essays by several different authors, often referring to each other. The book's expressed intent is to queer Islamic history, or at least offer a queer perspective in a region not often associated with homoeroticism. Unfortunately, several of the pieces do not make a cogent argument except to state examples of homosexual relationships in the Islamic past while other pieces work off one or two passages from a larger story to describe the presence of homosexuality (and different articulations of homosexuality in the western Islamicate, Spain and France, and the Eastern Islamicate, Arabia). Thus, while a number of the pieces lack evidence, other pieces are bubbling with examples. Najmabadi and Babayan's pieces were probably the best, though I was partial to Rowan and Amer's pieces as well. The remaining pieces are not that constructive and Epps does a great deal to discount Amer's essay (strange since they are included in the same collection). Altogether interesting, though not entirely worth the buy.Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs) Overview
Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire explores different genealogies of sexuality and questions some of the theoretical emphases and epistemic assumptions affecting current histories of sexuality. Concerned with the dynamic interplay between cultural constructions of gender and sexuality, the anthology moves across disciplinary fields, integrating literary criticism with social and cultural history, and establishes a dialogue between historians (Kathryn Babayan, Frédéric Lagrange, Afsaneh Najmabadi, and Everett Rowson), comparative literary scholars (Sahar Amer and Leyla Rouhi), and critical theorists of sexualities (Valerie Traub, Brad Epps, and Dina al-Kassim). As a whole, the anthology challenges Middle Eastern Studies with questions that have arisen in recent studies of sexualities, bringing into conversation Euro-American scholarship of sexuality with that of scholars engaged in studies of sexualities across a vast cultural (Iberian, Arabic, and Iranian) and temporal field (from the tenth century to the medieval and the modern).


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