Lahoucine Ouzgane is associate professor of English at the University of Alberta, where his teaching and research interests focus on postcolonial theory and literature, composition and rhetoric, and masculinity studies.

This new ensemble of well informed essays, which aims to analyse the construction of masculinity within particular social and historical contexts, is welcome. The volume will be more useful for the many researchers in the field of gender studies who are not familiar with Arab-Islamic culture.

• PART ONE: Masculinities and Religion1. Gender and Islamic Spirituality: A Psychological View of 'Low' Fundamentalism - Durre S. Ahmed2. The Smile of Death and the Solemncholy of Masculinity - Banu Helvacioglu3. Alternate Images of the Prophet Muhammad's Virility - Ruth Roded4. The Trial of Heritage and the Legacy of Abraham - Najat RahmanPART TWO: Masculinities and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict5. My wife is from the jinn: Palestinian men, diaspora, and love - Celia Rothenberg6. Chasing Horses, Eating Arabs - Rob K. Baum7. Stranger Masculinities: Gender and Politics in a Palestinian-Israeli 'Third-Space' - Daniel MonterescuPART THREE: Masculinities and Social Practice8. Gender, Power and Social Change in Morocco - Don Conway-Long9. Masculinity and gender violence in Yemen - Mohammed Baobaid10. Opportunities for Masculinity and Love: Cultural Production in Ba'thist Iraq during the 1980s - Achim Rohde11. On being homosexual and Muslim: Conflicts and Challenges - Asifa Siraj12. "The worms are weak": Male Infertility and Patriarchal Paradoxes in Egypt - Marcia C. InhornIndex

Lahoucine Ouzgane is associate professor of English at the University of Alberta, where his teaching and research interests focus on postcolonial theory and literature, composition and rhetoric, and masculinity studies.

This new ensemble of well informed essays, which aims to analyse the construction of masculinity within particular social and historical contexts, is welcome. The volume will be more useful for the many researchers in the field of gender studies who are not familiar with Arab-Islamic culture.

• PART ONE: Masculinities and Religion1. Gender and Islamic Spirituality: A Psychological View of 'Low' Fundamentalism - Durre S. Ahmed2. The Smile of Death and the Solemncholy of Masculinity - Banu Helvacioglu3. Alternate Images of the Prophet Muhammad's Virility - Ruth Roded4. The Trial of Heritage and the Legacy of Abraham - Najat RahmanPART TWO: Masculinities and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict5. My wife is from the jinn: Palestinian men, diaspora, and love - Celia Rothenberg6. Chasing Horses, Eating Arabs - Rob K. Baum7. Stranger Masculinities: Gender and Politics in a Palestinian-Israeli 'Third-Space' - Daniel MonterescuPART THREE: Masculinities and Social Practice8. Gender, Power and Social Change in Morocco - Don Conway-Long9. Masculinity and gender violence in Yemen - Mohammed Baobaid10. Opportunities for Masculinity and Love: Cultural Production in Ba'thist Iraq during the 1980s - Achim Rohde11. On being homosexual and Muslim: Conflicts and Challenges - Asifa Siraj12. "The worms are weak": Male Infertility and Patriarchal Paradoxes in Egypt - Marcia C. InhornIndex

Lahoucine Ouzgane is associate professor of English at the University of Alberta, where his teaching and research interests focus on postcolonial theory and literature, composition and rhetoric, and masculinity studies.

This new ensemble of well informed essays, which aims to analyse the construction of masculinity within particular social and historical contexts, is welcome. The volume will be more useful for the many researchers in the field of gender studies who are not familiar with Arab-Islamic culture.

• PART ONE: Masculinities and Religion1. Gender and Islamic Spirituality: A Psychological View of 'Low' Fundamentalism - Durre S. Ahmed2. The Smile of Death and the Solemncholy of Masculinity - Banu Helvacioglu3. Alternate Images of the Prophet Muhammad's Virility - Ruth Roded4. The Trial of Heritage and the Legacy of Abraham - Najat RahmanPART TWO: Masculinities and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict5. My wife is from the jinn: Palestinian men, diaspora, and love - Celia Rothenberg6. Chasing Horses, Eating Arabs - Rob K. Baum7. Stranger Masculinities: Gender and Politics in a Palestinian-Israeli 'Third-Space' - Daniel MonterescuPART THREE: Masculinities and Social Practice8. Gender, Power and Social Change in Morocco - Don Conway-Long9. Masculinity and gender violence in Yemen - Mohammed Baobaid10. Opportunities for Masculinity and Love: Cultural Production in Ba'thist Iraq during the 1980s - Achim Rohde11. On being homosexual and Muslim: Conflicts and Challenges - Asifa Siraj12. "The worms are weak": Male Infertility and Patriarchal Paradoxes in Egypt - Marcia C. InhornIndex