Sexuality and Islamic Spirituality in Early Malay Writings

List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations By way of a prologue: Zulaikha the Paragon of Women's Passion in Islam I. Passion 1. Passionate Spirituality Through a Sensuous "Feminine" Beloved 2. Reclaiming Eroticism from, and Reading Spiritualism into Animal Poetry II. Paradise 3. The Kitab Jimak: A Manual on the "Science of Women" and Paradise on Earth 4. The Path to Pleasure is Orderly, and not One of Careless Abandon 5. A Vaginal Viewpoint: "Orgasm is Half of What to Expect in Heaven" III. Propriety 6. Syariah Poetics on the Essentials of Marriage, Flawless Sex and a Pure Body 7. The Chaste Body at the Cusp of 20th-Century Modernity By Way of an Epilogue: Zawiyah the Paragon of Women's Passionlessness in Islam Bibliography Contributors