Intersex and the (Non)Binary Body in Classical Muslim Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses
Bringing together leading scholars in the field, this book examines how classical Muslim thinkers conceptualised, categorised, and regulated bodies that defied binary understandings of sex and gender.
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Specificaties
| ISBN/EAN | 9789087284992 |
| Auteur | Mehrdad Alipour |
| Uitgever | Universiteit Leiden hodn Leiden Universi |
| Taal | Engels |
| Uitvoering | Gebonden in harde band |
| Pagina's | 290 |
| Lengte | 241.0 mm |
| Breedte | 163.0 mm |
Mehrdad Alipour (PhD) is a scholar of Islamic legal and cultural history, focusing on the transformation of body politics, gender, and sexuality in Islamic contexts across the premodern and modern eras. He received the VENI Talent Grant (2022–2025) for the project Beyond Binaries: Intersex Identity in Islamic Legal Tradition (https://beyondbinaries.nl). He is the author of Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam (Brill, 2024) and “Navigating Body Politics in Shi?i Legal Tradition” (Islamic Law and Society, 2025). Indira Falk Gesink is Professor of History and Director of the Core Curriculum at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. Her publications include Islamic Reform and Conservatism: Al-Azhar and the Evolution of Modern Sunni Islam (2009), Barefoot Millionaire (2013), and Philosophies of History (2018). Her work has also appeared in the American Historical Review and the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.