Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World

History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Vanja Hamzic

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-09-19
Mått138 x 214 x 18 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibrary of Islamic South Asia
Antal sidor352
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781788315081

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Vanja Hamzic is Senior Lecturer in Legal History and Legal Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. He has held numerous prestigious research positions, including the residential membership in the School of Social Science of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His main body of work interrogates historical and present-day formations of gender and sexuality in various Islamicate societies of South Asia, Southeast Asia and West Africa. He is co-author, with Ziba Mir-Hosseini, of Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts (2010).

Human rights law speaks volumes to Islamic law on behalf of sexual minorities in the Muslim world, but this book, based on extensive fieldwork in Lahore, Pakistan, turns the tables. It plumbs Islamic Law as a source for understanding, celebrating, protecting and learning from sexually diverse and gender-variant Muslims today and historically – and for enriching a human rights vocabulary on sexual diversity that pales by comparison with Vanja Hamzic’s rich ethnography and his genealogy of treasured sexual minorities in Islamic law from the early umma to the never-quite-post colonial present.