Homosexuality in Islam Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle (Oxford: Oneworld, 2010. pbk 335 pages)
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Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle’s Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection
on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims is a comprehensive, engaging,
and original rereading of the formative Islamic texts and traditions. Targeted
at both academic and popular readers, the book has two prime objectives:
to push heterosexual Muslims to confront their own prejudices about
homosexuality within the Muslim community, and to give lesbian, gay, and
transgender Muslims greater confidence and the ability to speak about their
sexual realities in regard to the Islamic intellectual tradition ...