Homoerotyzm i homoseksualizm w "Naszyjniku gołębicy" Ibn Hazma

• Authors: Rafał Zawisza

Title variants

EN

Homoeroticism and Homosexuality in Ibn Hazm’s "The Ring of the Dove”

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to retrace the male homoerotic and homosexual strands in Ibn Hazm’s "The Ring of the Dove" – with contextual analysis which refers to the juridical-religious debates and controversies about a phenomenon of love between men. At first, the author and a general profile of his work are presented. Then, a number of comments concerning difficulties with research on non-heteronormativity will be made with reference to the knowledge of scholars working with ancient Greek and Christian sources. Such perspective allows to evade a necessity of total agreement neither with essentialists nor with culturalists. The following part of the article discusses various attitudes of Islamic classical schools towards homoeroticism and homosexuality. Elucidation of original terms used in this context is followed with an analysis of fragments from "The Ring of the Dove". This analysis leads to a conclusion that ‘homoeroticism’ and ‘homosexuality’ as deliberately conventional notions have a potential to depict polarity within Arab culture of the classical period regarding love between men: by means of unwritten rules and thanks to the clearly outlined public sphere a great spectrum of possibilities between condemnation and acquiescence was institutionalized. In this way, the article demonstrates that all designations referring to eroticism are inadequate and casual.

Keywords

EN

Arab culture; Ibn Hazm; The Ring of the Dove; Homoeroticism; Homosexuality; Non-heteronormativity

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Orientalistyczne
• Journal: Przegląd Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 26-42

Contributors

author

Rafał Zawisza

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

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ISSN

0033-2283