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This paper examines how one of the leading Muslim religious scholars of the fourteenth century CE presented jealousy (in the sense of romantic possessiveness, as well as of personal zeal) as a masculine virtue, but also cautioned that it was a volatile emotion that could cause harm.
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The paper shows that pre-modern Muslim scholars defined gender roles not merely through their interpretation of legal rules, but by presenting a gendered vision of morality featuring different ideal emotional profiles for men and women.
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This page is a summary of: Beyond Ḥalāl and Ḥarām: Ghayra (‘Jealousy’) as a Masculine Virtue in the Work of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Cultural History, October 2019, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/cult.2019.0200.
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