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The topics of ‘Islam’ and ‘homosexuality’ have become increasingly interrelated objects of study in academia. In this chapter, Shah evaluates some core contributions in this area, starting with the work of the openly gay American convert Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, a scholar of South Asian and Islamic Studies at Emory University. Shah then outlines other pertinent studies of sexuality—specifically homosexuality—among Muslim societies in Western and non-Western settings. He connects this broad survey with other much-needed analytical insights, concentrating on sociological perspectives on ‘deviance’, ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation. The chapter ends with a brief examination of religion, nationalism and homosexuality in relevant non-Muslim contexts.

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    From his official page on the Emory University website (2010).

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    From personal communication at the fifth Imaan national conference, London, 2012, and subsequent informal conversations.

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    Islamic jurisprudence .

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    Also styled ‘Lut’ by other Muslim writers—here, I follow Kugle’s style.

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    Amreen Jamal (2001, p. 69) has also conducted detailed semantic analysis of these narratives, concluding that ‘same-sex abominations are not an exceptional category of sin’ and ‘Islam is not clear about the position of same-sex sexuality.’

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