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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Gendering the legal subject : masculinity and femininity in legal discourse -- Gender and the construction of enslaved subjects -- Age and gendered legal personhood -- Gender and legal personhood in Hanafi law. |
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"One of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary Muslim ethics is the status of women in Islamic law. While 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--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 to think with and through the Islamic legal tradition"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Women (Islamic law) -- History.
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Persons (Islamic law) -- History.
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Hanafites -- Doctrines.
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Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction -- Early works to 1800.
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Personnes (Droit islamique) -- Histoire.
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Hanafites -- Doctrines.
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Droit islamique -- Interprétation -- Ouvrages avant 1800.
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Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction.
(OCoLC)fst00979955
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Persons (Islamic law) (OCoLC)fst01058870
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Women (Islamic law) (OCoLC)fst01735659
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HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula
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Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Print version: Yacoob, Saadia, 1981- Beyond the binary [Oakland, California] : University of California Press, [2024] 9780520393806 (DLC) 2023043570 |
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9780520393813 (ebook) |
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0520393813 |
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9780520393806 (paperback) |
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