Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-292) and index.
Separate but equal: the erotic Aḥdāth as desiderata -- Devil may care: Abdelwahab Bouhdiba and the demonization of impurity -- Zayd and Zaynab revisited: bowdlerizing the Uswa Ḥasana -- The steaming East: Franz Rosenthal and the literature of sexual subversion -- '...If you have touched women...': the root of the controversy -- Kitāb: five centuries of logomachy -- Sunna: inside the apostle's abode -- Ra'y: the spectrum of ratiocination -- On account of a kiss: Ṭahāra as libidinal regulator -- Palpation and palpitation: the further breakdown of Mulāmasa -- Dancing in chains