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Summary:

"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]

Table of Contents:

• 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.

Author/Creator:

Yacoob, Saadia, 1981- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Beyond the binary: gender and legal personhood in Islamic law [by Yacoob, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Beyond the binary [by Yacoob, S.] ([Oakland, California] : University of California Press, [2024] — ISBN 9780520393806; LCCN 2023043570)

Subjects:

Women (Islamic law) — History

Persons (Islamic law) — History

Hanafites — Doctrines

Islamic law — Interpretation and construction — Early works to 1800

Islamic law — Interpretation and construction

Persons (Islamic law)

Women (Islamic law)

Hanafites

Theology, Doctrinal

Islamic law

Genres:

History

Early works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

KBP526.4 .Y336 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780520393813 (ebook)
0520393813
9780520393806 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023043571

OCLC Numbers:

1401976633