Sexuality and Islamic Spirituality in Early Malay Writings

Based on Malay manuscripts and publications, this book examines the relationship between sex and Islamic spirituality since the seventeenth century in Southeast Asia

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Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

By way of a prologue: Zulaikha the Paragon of Women''s Passion in Islam

I. Passion
1. Passionate Spirituality Through a Sensuous Feminine Beloved
2. Reclaiming Eroticism from, and Reading Spiritualism into Animal Poetry

II. Paradise
3. The Kitab Jimak: A Manual on the Science of Women and Paradise on Earth
4. The Path to Pleasure is Orderly, and not One of Careless Abandon
5. A Vaginal Viewpoint: Orgasm is Half of What to Expect in Heaven

III. Propriety
6. Syariah Poetics on the Essentials of Marriage, Flawless Sex and a Pure Body
7. The Chaste Body at the Cusp of 20th-Century Modernity
By Way of an Epilogue: Zawiyah the Paragon of Women''s Passionlessness in Islam

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