Homosexuality, Transidentity, and Islam

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is currently the director of the CALEM Institute (Marseille). He did a master’s degree from the >École normale supérieure de Paris> (ENS), a doctorate in social psychology, and a doctorate from the >École des hautes études en sciences sociales> (EHESS). He was the founder of the association of queer Muslims in France, >Homosexuel-es musulman-es de France> (HM2F), as well as the association for young people living with HIV/AIDS in France, >Tour du monde des enfants du sida> (TMDES). In addition, he was the founding imam of the first European inclusive mosque (Paris).

• Foreword, Introduction I - The Qur'anic Ethics of Nature: Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity 1a. Human Nature: Mirroring the Will of God 1b. Condemnation of immoral practices II - Distressing Qur'anic Verses? 2a. The Original Sodomy: Forbidding Ritual Rape 2b. The Absence of Female Homosexuality in the Qur'an 2c. Positive Identification of Gender Minorities in the Qur'an III - The Prophet: A Living Incarnation of Qur'anic Ethics 3a. Was the Prophet Homophobic and Transphobic? 3b. The Status of Mukhanathun: Effeminate, Trans, or Gay Men? 3c. The First Sodomite: Neither Gay nor Trans, but a Rapist IV - Islamic Apocrypha Advocating the Stoning of Sodomites 4a. The Sectarian Ideology of Fatwas Associating Sodomy With Apostasy 4b. A Former Mukhannath's Internalized Homophobia and Misogyny 4c. What the Different Islamic Schools of Thought Advocate V - Post-colonial Orientalisms VI - Abnormals: from cultural diversity to dogmatic uniformity VII - Towards a Structural Reevaluation of Cultural Values VIII - Panarabist Literary and Identity Censorship IX - Orientalist Shi'ism and Literary Homo-eroticism X - Homonationalism and Performative Sexual Categorization XI - A Crisis of Categories, Geopolitics or Civilization, Conclusion, Afterword, Bibliography, Index.