Beyond the Binary : Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yacoob, Saadia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persons (Islamic law)--History.

Persons (Islamic law).

Islamic law--Teachings.

Islamic law.

Hanafites--Doctrines.

Hanafites.

Islamic law--Interpretation and construction--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Gendering the Legal Subject

2. Gender and the Construction of Enslaved Subjects

3. Age and Gendered Legal Personhood

4. Gender and Legal Personhood in Hanafi Law

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520393813

OCLC:

1450660211