Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (54 page)
Read Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 Online
Authors: Khaled El-Rouayheb
BOOK: Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
10.81Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
such as intercourse between women.
118
A standard Hanbali
manual also defined fornication as “committing the abomination in the vagina or anus” (
fiʿl al-fa
ḥishah fī qubul aw dubur
)
,
and went on to specify that it is a precondition for the application of
hadd
punishments that the glans is inserted
(taghyi
b al-ḥashafah
) into either orifice.
119
A standard Ma
liki
manual defined fornication as a “legally mature Muslim’s insertion of the penis into a human vagina that is not allowed to him,” thus explicitly excluding cases of nonpenetrative sex such as intercourse between the thighs (
la
ghayr farj ka-bayn fakhdhayn
)
.
The manual specified that “insertion” (
i
la
j
) meant the introduction of the glans (
taghyi
b ḥashafah
) into the orifice, and sodomy (
liwa
ṭ
) was then specified to be the introduction of the glans into the anus of a male (
idkha
liha
fī dubur dhakar
).
Ḥadd
punishments were stated not to apply to sexual intercourse between women “since there is no penetration” (
li- ‛adam al-i
la
j
118
A standard Hanbali
manual also defined fornication as “committing the abomination in the vagina or anus” (fiʿl al-fa
ḥishah fī qubul aw dubur)
,
and went on to specify that it is a precondition for the application of
hadd
punishments that the glans is inserted
(taghyi
b al-ḥashafah) into either orifice.
119
A standard Ma
likimanual defined fornication as a “legally mature Muslim’s insertion of the penis into a human vagina that is not allowed to him,” thus explicitly excluding cases of nonpenetrative sex such as intercourse between the thighs (la
ghayr farj ka-bayn fakhdhayn)
.
The manual specified that “insertion” (
i
laj) meant the introduction of the glans (
taghyi
b ḥashafah) into the orifice, and sodomy (
liwa
ṭ) was then specified to be the introduction of the glans into the anus of a male (
idkha
lihafī dubur dhakar).
Ḥadd
punishments were stated not to apply to sexual intercourse between women “since there is no penetration” (
li- ‛adam al-i
lajOther books
Mrs. Tuesday's Departure: A Historical Novel of World War Two by Anderson, Suzanne Elizabeth
SubmittingtotheRake by Em Brown
The Chronicles of Robin Hood by Rosemary Sutcliff
La ramera errante by Iny Lorentz
Sea Robber by Tim Severin
Ashes And Spirit (Book 3) by A.D. Trosper
Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley
The Learning Curve by Melissa Nathan
Running Wilde (The Winnie Wilde Series Book 1) by Chambers, Meg, Jaffarian, Sue Ann
McAllister Justice by Matt Chisholm
