Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law

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Author: Saadia Yacoob
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Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law by Yacoob, Saadia

Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law

$131.93

Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law

$131.93
Author: Saadia Yacoob
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

One of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary Muslim ethics is the status of women in Islamic law. Whereas Muslim conservatives argue that gender-differentiated legal rulings reflect complementary gender roles, Muslim feminists argue that Islamic law has subordinated women and is thus in need of reform. The shared assumption on both sides, however, is that gender fundamentally shapes an individual's legal status. Beyond the Binary explores an expansive cross section of topics in ninth- to twelfth-century Hanafi legal thought, ranging from sexual crimes to consent to marriage, to show that early Muslim jurists imagined a world built not on a binary distinction between male and female but on multiple intersecting hierarchies of gender, age, enslavement, lineage, class, and other social roles. Saadia Yacoob offers a restorative reading of Islamic law, arguing that its intersectional and relational understanding of legal personhood offers a productive space for Muslim feminists to move beyond critique and instead think with and through the Islamic legal tradition.


Author: Saadia Yacoob
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780520393806

About the Author
Saadia Yacoob is Assistant Professor of Religion at Williams College.

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