Ottoman-ruled lands were imagined as sites of unnatural sexuality
Evidence
Crocodiles were clearly a different thing: actually existing creatures from far distant areas, especially dangerous ones of monstrous size that inhabit both land and water, might well have seemed to cross between human and animal orders. Nor, perhaps, should it be surprising that sexual difference was a specific site of such contravention since it was fondly imagined that the lands ruled by the Ottomans were a place where all manner of bizarre and un-natural forms of sexuality could be found. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 420
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Even real distant creatures became Muslim monsters through imagined sexual monstrosity (similarity 0.86)
- Medieval and colonial Europeans projected obsessive sexual-masculinity fantasies onto Muslim men (similarity 0.84)
- German Turcica manufactured lurid tales of Muslim sexual deviance (similarity 0.84)
- Muslim sexual monstrosity fantasies persisted from medieval claims into the colonial croco-sapien (similarity 0.83)
- Medieval sexual fantasies about Muhammad later transferred to all Muslim men (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval Christian texts fabricated Muslim sexual superstitions that persisted into colonial-era mythology. (similarity 0.80)
- Female Muslim monsters arose in the colonial era from sexualized body imagery (similarity 0.79)
- Muslim monsters are repositories of Western desires as much as fears (similarity 0.79)
- Orientalist monsters shifted from animal hybrids to demonized Muslim men (similarity 0.79)
- Orientalist monster imagery freely migrated onto entirely different religious targets (similarity 0.78)
- Orientalist monster fantasies transferred freely across religious and ethnic enemy groups (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim
#exemplifies(0.80) - Muslim sexual monstrosity fantasies persisted from medieval claims into the colonial croco-sapien
#expands(0.75) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 419 - Sexual objectification of Muslim women fuses desire and military intervention fantasy
#exemplifies(0.70) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 362 - History invents phantasms — fantasies attached to Muslim bodies — that remain powerful
#corroborates(0.70) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 66