Homosexuality: Reading suggestions

Salam:

To the person who just wrote to the list:

There are many sources to whom you can go on the issue of homosexuality and 
Islam.  Coincidentally I just read a very, very well-researched article that 
was contained in the recently published volume, Progressive Muslims edited 
by Omid Safi.  The article, "Sexuality, diversity and ethics in the agenda 
of progressive Muslims" by Scott Siraj Al-Haqq Kugle, gives a lot of 
information and has a lot of sources cited in endnotes that can serve you as 
suggestions for further reading.  Prof. Kugle's e-mail address is listed in 
the book as [email protected]

We have a scholar on this list who has researched this issue extensively, 
and I urge him to follow up this note with more suggestions:  Imam Daayiee 
Abdullah.

A short answer to your overall question is that there is no central 
authority in Islam and therefore no one Muslim attitude towards sexual 
orientation.  Progressive Muslims don't have a central authority or a single 
view on the issue either.

Wishing you productive reading and researching,

Anna Ghonim

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