Further Reading

In addition to Dr Shah’s The Making of a Gay Muslim: Religion, Sexuality and Identity in Malaysia and Britain, Palgrave Macmillan (2018), if you want to explore the issues raised further you might look at for example:

Adang, C. (2003) ‘Ibn Hazm on homosexuality. a case-study of Zahiri Legal Methodology’, Al-Qantara 24(1), pp. 5–31.

Afsaruddin, A. (2015) Contemporary Issues in Islam, Edinburgh University Press, Chapters 3 and 4.

Ali, K. (2016) Sexual Ethics and Islam Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence, One World, Chapter 5.

An-Na‘im, A.A. (2008) Islam and the Secular State Negotiating the Future of Shari‘a, Harvard University Press, Chapter 1.

Arnaldez, R. (2012) ‘Ibn Ḥazm’, Encyclopaedia of Islam, second edn, edited by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs.

Brinley Bruton, F. (2018) ‘Saudi cleric Salman al-Awda called for reform. Now he’s in solitary confinement’, NBC News, 27 January. Available at: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast/saudi-cleric-salman-al-awda-called-reform-now-he-s-n840916 (Accessed 12 January 2023).

Fiegenbaum, J.W. (n.d.) ‘Ibn Hazm’, Britannica. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-Hazm (Accessed 12 January 2023).

Jung, D. (2011) Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere, Equinox.

Diane Moore’s Religious Literacy Project at Harvard University

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