Back جهاد من أجل الحب Arabic جهاد من اجل الحب ARZ A Jihad for Love Czech A Jihad For Love Welsh A Jihad for Love Spanish جهاد برای عشق Persian A Jihad for Love HE A Jihad for Love Italian 愛のジハード Japanese 지하드 포 러브 Korean

A Jihad for Love

A Jihad for Love
First Run Features poster for A Jihad for Love (US)
Directed byParvez Sharma
Written byParvez Sharma[1]
Produced bySandi Simcha DuBowski
Parvez Sharma
CinematographyParvez Sharma
Edited byJuliet Weber
Music bySussan Deyhim
Richard Horowitz
supervised by
Ramsay Adams
Abe Velez
Distributed byFirst Run Features (U.S.)
Release dates
Running time
81 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hindi, French, Turkish, etc.
Box office$105,651

A Jihad for Love (preceded by a short film called In the Name of Allah) is a 2008 documentary film written and directed by Parvez Sharma and was the world's first film on Islam and homosexuality.[3][4] It took a total of six years to make and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007. It premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2008 as the opening documentary film for the Panorama section.[5]

The Indo-American Arts Council referred to it as a "seminal film" because of its unprecedented subject.[6] The work that Sharma started with the film has become a staple in many books on Islam and at U.S. University libraries.[7] Sharma wrote the foreword for the two-part anthology Islam and Homosexuality.[8][9]

According to Sharma, South Africa's Muslim Judicial Council labeled him an apostate in response to the film.[10]

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  3. ^ "Indo-American Arts Council, Inc". www.iaac.us. Archived from the original on 2008-12-05. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  4. ^ Kaiser, Charles (2017-09-10). "A Sinner in Mecca review – Islam, homosexuality and the hope of tolerance". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 2018-03-02. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
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  6. ^ "A list of Lesbian Documentaries | LGBTQ". Round the World Magazine. 2017-10-19. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  7. ^ Luongo, Michael (2013-04-03). Gay Travels in the Muslim World. Routledge. ISBN 9781136570476.
  8. ^ Habib, Samar (2010). Islam and Homosexuality. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313379031.
  9. ^ Puar, Jasbir K. (2007-10-26). Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822341147.
  10. ^ Helfand, Duke (26 July 2008). "Filmmaker uncovers the struggle of gay Muslims in 'A Jihad for Love'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 July 2021.

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