"Adi Saleem has done an extraordinary job gathering a number of essays that, from a diversity of disciplinary frameworks, offer truly novel contributions to an emerging field of study. The purpose of the book?the interrogation of boundaries of agency, interpretation, and representation of Jewish/Muslim, Jewish-Muslim, and Jewish and Muslim queerness?helps to break naturalized and universalized binaries not only in academic spaces but also in the public sphere. This is a must-read for scholars and communities interested in Jewish and Muslim studies, religion, gender and sexuality, and social interpretations of interreligious dynamics."?Santiago Slabodsky, Florence and Robert Kaufman Professor in Jewish Studies, Hofstra University "In a world where Jewishness and Muslimness are often cast as at odds?and where religion is often cast as at odds with queerness?this volume bravely challenges these binaries. Adi Saleem has brought together an impressive group of scholars whose collective contributions highlight the 'interactions, interrelations, and intersections between Jewish, Muslim, and queer identifications.' The interdisciplinary approach that is at the heart of this book beautifully captures the invaluable connections among gender, sexuality, literature, race, religion, media, representation, community, and solidarity. In critically examining categories inherited in academia and beyond related to these domains, this book is a laudatory form of queer knowledge production."?Sa'ed Atshan, associate professor of peace and conflict studies and anthropology, Swarthmore College.
Queer Jews, Queer Muslims : Race, Religion, and Representation