Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge - Paperback
by Vanja Hamzic
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Availability:In StockContributor:Vanja HamzicSeries:Library of Islamic South AsiaTheme:Religious Orientation/IslamicPublish date:9/19/2019Pages:352
Languages:EnglishPublisher:I. B. Tauris & CompanyISBN-13:9781788315081ISBN-10:1788315081UPC:9781788315081Book Category:Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Islamic, Gender Studies, Islamic StudiesSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCHVGQCM0B
Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity is forbidden in contemporary international human rights law, yet in many interpretations of Islamic law, this is seen to contradict the tenets of Islam. Vanja Hamzic here offers a path-breaking historical and anthropological analysis of the discourses on sexual and gender diversity in the Muslim world. The first of its kind, the book sheds new light on the understanding of diversity and resistance to hegemonic visions of the self in Muslim societies.
Combining first-hand ethnographic accounts of Muslims in contemporary Pakistan including the hijra community whose pluralist sexual and gender experience defy the disciplinary gaze of both international and state law with new archival research, this book provides a unique mapping of Islamic jurisprudence, court practice and social developments in the Muslim world. Hamzic provides a comprehensive look at the ways in which sexually diverse and gender-variant Muslims are seen, and see themselves, within the context of the Islamic legal tradition.
Combining first-hand ethnographic accounts of Muslims in contemporary Pakistan including the hijra community whose pluralist sexual and gender experience defy the disciplinary gaze of both international and state law with new archival research, this book provides a unique mapping of Islamic jurisprudence, court practice and social developments in the Muslim world. Hamzic provides a comprehensive look at the ways in which sexually diverse and gender-variant Muslims are seen, and see themselves, within the context of the Islamic legal tradition.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:I. B. Tauris & CompanyISBN-13:9781788315081ISBN-10:1788315081UPC:9781788315081Book Category:Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Islamic, Gender Studies, Islamic StudiesSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCHVGQCM0B
Vanja Hamzic is Lecturer in Law and Co-Chair of the Centre for Ottoman Studies at SOAS, University of London. His legal, anthropological and historical research primarily revolves around human subjectivity formation and insurrectionary vernacular knowledge, with the principal fieldwork sites in Indonesia, Egypt and Pakistan. He also specialises in Islamic legal traditions, with a focus on Seljuk, Mamluk, Ottoman and Mughal laws and social norms. He is co-author with Ziba Mir-Husseini of Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts (2010).
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
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