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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Jan Jaap de Ruiter -- 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 Representations 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 Mukhannathun: "Effeminate," Trans, or Gay? -- 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. Postcolonial Orientalisms -- VI. "Abnormals": From Cultural Diversity to Dogmatic Uniformity -- VII. Towards a Structural Reevaluation of Cultural Values -- VIII. Pan-Arabist Literary and Identity Censorship -- IX. Orientalist Shi'ism and Literary Homoeroticism -- X. Homonationalism and Performative Sexual Categorization -- XI. A "Crisis" of Categories, Geopolitics or Civilization -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Adi S. Bharat -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Figures -- Figure 1 Hadith classification -- Figure 2 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths concerning mukhannathun -- Figure 3 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths condemning 'sodomites' -- Figure 4 Apocryphal hadiths concerning the execution or stoning of 'sodomites'.