sex with a dead spouse “farewell intercourse.” A Fatwa

sex with a dead spouse "farewell intercourse." A Fatwa

Necrophilia and Uncooked Meat: A Take on Irrational Fatwas
The cyberspace is abuzz with discussions on yet another fatwa, this
time from a Moroccan cleric who declared necrophilia lawful. According
to the cleric, it is religiously permissible for a man to have sex
with his dead wife provided it is done within six hours of death.
Although the fatwa seems to have been issued some time ago, in May
last year, it came to global limelight following a news report in Al
Arabiya – which was vehemently denied later – that Egyptian Parliament
was planning to turn it into law!
The falsity of the news report is now confirmed, but it is reasonably
clear that the cleric, Abdul Bari Al Zamzami, did issue the fatwa. To
be fair, it must be added that he considered acting on the fatwa
despicable, but challenged everyone to prove him wrong on the
permissibility of sex with a dead spouse, euphemistically termed
"farewell intercourse."
The example he used to vindicate his learned opinion betrays the
depths of misogyny and misanthropy that the man inhabits. He said it
was like eating uncooked meat; everyone knows it is not healthy to eat
uncooked meat but that does not mean it […]

Medieval Arab lesbians

Excerpts from an article in the Journal of the History of Sexuality:
Foreshadowing the medicalization of homosexuality in nineteenth
century Europe, lesbianism in the medieval Islamicate medical
tradition seems to have already been regarded as a medical category
(though not a deviant one) requiring specific treatment, namely,
rubbing…. Rubbing is here presented as capable only of relieving, not
of curing, the woman; female homosexuality is thus clearly depicted as
both innate and lifelong. Such views were standard and were repeated
from one century…
As a matter of fact, the origin of lesbianism, according to popular
anecdotes in the Arabic literary tradition, is regularly traced back
forty years before the emergence of male homosexuality to an
intercultural, interfaith love affair between an Arab woman and a
Christian woman in pre-Islamic Iraq….
In the medieval Arabic literary erotic tradition, as in the
Kama-sutra, from which it may have borrowed elements, lesbians are
said to have formed groups, to have held meetings, and to have led
schools in which they taught other lesbians how best to achieve
pleasure…
Moreover, and in contrast to their status in the medieval West in the […]

Women had more rights in pre-Islamic period.

Tasleema Nasreen
Khadija Bint Khuwaylid was a business woman. She inherited the
business her father created, and continued to work to create a
successful business. She was from a noble family. Khadija earned three
titles: Ameerat-Quraish (Princess of Quraish) and al-Tahira (the Pure
One), and Khadija Al-Kubra (Khadija the Great) and was said to have
had an impeccable character. She used to feed and clothe the poor,
assist her relatives financially, and provide for the marriage of
those of her kin who could not otherwise have had the means to marry.
Khadija was a very wealthy woman, many men wanted her hand in
marriage. Khadija refused to marry any of them. She employed Muhammad
as an agent for a transaction in Syria. Muhammad worked with Khadija's
trade caravans. Muhammad was a trustworthy hard working man. Khadija
was so impressed, she offered Muhammad a fee double the highest of
anything she had ever paid a man of Quraysh. She was 40-year-old when
she married Mohammad, a 25-year-old man. Khadija had two previous
marriages before marrying Mohammad. She gave birth to three daughters.
Mohammad had his first revelation when he was 40. He was financially
dependent on Khadija. He did not marry other […]