Foreword 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 Identification 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 Mukhanathun: "Effeminate," Trans, or Gay Men? 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 - Post-colonial Orientalisms VI - "Abnormals": from cultural diversity to dogmatic uniformity VII - Towards a Structural Reevaluation of Cultural Values VIII - Panarabist Literary and Identity Censorship IX - Orientalist Shi'ism and Literary Homo-eroticism X - Homonationalism and Performative Sexual Categorization XI - A "Crisis" of Categories, Geopolitics or Civilization Conclusion Afterword Bibliography Index