Ibid., p. 9

Ibid., p. 10

Ibn Qayvim al-Jawzia, Rawdat al-muhibbin, p. 19

See Note 16, Chapter 2

See the list in Chapter 2 under the heading, »The discourse of chivalry: affective Islam or the world of sentiment,« and Note 20 of that chapter. In the following pages, my analysis will focus on the two most coherent and elaborate of those texts: Imam Abd al-Rahman Ibn al-Jawzi, Dhamm al-hawa (the author lived in the thirteenth century of the Christian calendar); and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzia, Rawdat al-muhibbin wa nuzhat al-mushtaqin (the author lived in the fourteenth century of the Christian calendar)

Understanding and deciphering »the Sign« is one of the key themes of the Koranic message. See for example: Surah II, »The Cow,« Verses 248, 252, 259, 260; Surah III, »The Family of Imran,« Verses 41, 49, 50, 58, 97, 103, 190; Surah IV, »Women,« Verse 114. It also occurs in Surahs VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIV, XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXIX, XL, XLI, XLII, XLIII. XLIV, XLV, XLVI, XLVII, XLVIII, LI, LIII, LIV, LVII, LXXIX

The prohibition against homosexuality in Islam is expressed through the myth of Lot in, for example, the following surahs: Surah XXVI, »The Poets,« Verses 165, 166; Surah XXVII, »The Ant,« Verses 54, 55

Imam Ghazzali, Ihwa 'ulum al-din, p. 27

Ibid., p. 600

Imam Bukhari, Al-Sahih, p. 590 of the translation by O. Houdas