Front matter
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: Queering Islam and micropolitical disorientation
Part I Queer interethnic desire
Of interethnic (dis)connection: queer phenomenology, and cultural and religious commodification in Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)
‘Are we on the same wavelength?’: Interstitial queerness and the Ismaili diaspora in Ian Iqbal Rashid’s poetry and films
Queering Orientalism, Ottoman homoeroticism, and Turkishness in Ferzan Özpetek’s Hamam: The Turkish Bath (1997)
Part II Negotiating Islamic gender
Countermemories of desire: exploring gender, anti-racism, and homonormativity in Shamim Sarif’s The World Unseen (2001) and I Can't Think Straight (2008)
Between gang and family: queering ethnicity and British Muslim masculinities in Sally El Hosaini’s My Brother the Devil (2012)
The Good, the bad, and the ugly? Unveiling American Muslim women in Rolla Selbak’s Three Veils (2011)
Part III Narrating the self in queer time and place
A postcolonial queer melancholia: matrilinearity, Sufism, and l’errance in the autofictional works of Abdellah Taïa
The druzification of history: queering time, place, and faith in the diasporic novels of Rabih Alameddine
Written on the body: a queer and cartographic exploration of the Palestinian diaspora in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home (2008) and Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (2016)
Conclusion: Thinking.across
Bibliography
Index