Review of: Thomas Bauer: Die Kultur der Ambiguität. Eine andere Geschichte des Islams. Berlin: Verlag der Weltreligionen im Insel Verlag 2011.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/994Keywords:
Sprache, Homosexualität, Moderne, Sexualität, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
The comprehensive work of the Arabist and Islamic scholar Thomas Bauer offers an excellent starting point for continuing thoughts in gender studies. On the one hand, the contrastive pairs homosexuality vs. heterosexuality and woman vs. man (in terms of an unambiguous and 'true' two-gender framework), which are establishing with ‘modernity’, can now be studied in more detail as phenomena of modernization. On the other hand, the meaning of ambiguity is deduced very thoroughly: with ‘modernity’, Bauer vividly explains, the tendency towards unambiguity and truth, which had already been present in occidental thinking, had intensified. Inconsistencies were now considered a problem and, if possible, they were eliminated. Since the mid-nineteenth century, inspired by European sources, the Arabic world followed this effacement of ambiguity, Bauer also explains.
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