... who dressed like a man” (Imam Abu Dawud, bk. 027, no. 4087). Feminist and queer interpretations of Islam counter such transphobic, homophobic, and patriarchal elements in the hadith by contesting its reliability as a source of Islamic knowledge and jurisprudence. Some scholars attempt to resolve...

...Zara Saeidzadeh Abstract Sex-change surgery has been practiced through a medico-judicial process in Iran based on Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic juristic legal opinion (fatwa), which he issued just a few years after the Islamic revolution, in 1982. According to the Iranian legal system, judges can...

... in-depth, semistructured interviews, and observations at the pesantren waria (Islamic boarding school for Muslim waria ), this article investigates the ways in which the participants construct their “wariahood” in relation to the assumed presence of a jiwa perempuan (female soul/spirit), challenging...

.... These assertions of piety, drawn creatively from Sufi and Shi'a modes and often performed on the fringes or lower rungs of developmental activism, offer an embodied outlet for negotiating multiple axes of exclusion. While recent scholarship has claimed that in the context of reformist Islamic movements khwaja...

...Saqer A. Almarri Abstract The study of gender, sex, and sexuality in Islam has been growing. However, close textual study of the jurisprudential frameworks that conceptualized the body and sex is lacking. This study examines a section of a medieval-era legal manual written by Al-Qadi Al-Nuʻman...

... and sexuality are also useful categories for historical analysis to suggest that somatic-constitutional transformation can be as well. Interestingly, these are all better categories for analysis of the pre- and post-op (Islamic revolution) state of Iran than they are for comprehending a class of transsexual...

...-was-positive/ . Tanis Justin Edward . 2003 . Trans-Gendered: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith . Cleveland : Pilgrim . Teh Yik Koon . 2008 . “ Politics and Islam: Factors Determining Identity and the Status of Male-to-Female Transsexuals in Malaysia .” In AsiaPacifiQueer...

... . Manucci Niccolao . 1906 . Storia do Mogor or Mogul India, 1653–1708 . London : John Murray . Murray Stephen O. 1997 . “ The Will Not to Know: Islamic Accommodations of Male Homosexuality .” In Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature , edited by Murray Stephen...

... Politicization of Sufi Shrines and Pilgrimages in Pakistan .” In Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia: Shrines, Journeys, and Wanderers , edited by Boivin Michel and Delage Remy , 174 – 89 . Oxford : Routledge . Ramberg Lucinda . 2016 . “ Backward Futures and Pasts Forward...

..., and transactivisim in Iran since the 1930s, scholars of Middle East, West Asia, and North Africa are newly able to test our speculative theories of contemporary subjectivity and its entanglement with modern state power. Arguing that Iran's Islamicized modernity paradoxically elaborated new subjectivities through...

... queerness of the Christic body (see Feinberg 1996 ; Warner 1981 ; Kuefler 1999 ; Lochrie 1997 ). Discussions of the “medieval” can also extend beyond Europe; while the term originated in Europe, one increasingly reads and hears about histories of “medieval Islam” or “medieval Japan,” for example...

.../the-new-language-of-power-speaks-in-the-name-of-gender-here-we-find-out-how-the-lobbies-have-set-the-agenda-of-many-countries-through-the-major-un-conferences/ . Berg Tora Lind . 2021 . “ Langer ut mot Per-Willy Amundsen:—Han Bruker Skeive Muslimers Kropper som Slegge I Sin Kamp mot Islam...

... interface, that decenters Christianity and US-based expressions of both trans and religion, and that features a sustained focus on trans women of color. We wanted to highlight gender-nonconforming subjects in Taoism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and native and indigenous religions (among other traditions...

... of India. While there may be certain shared regional traits like what the hijras in Bangladesh and West Bengal display, the hijras in Pakistan or, say, Rajasthan in India may register very different forms of characteristics. For example, ethnographies of hijra in India suggest a special bias for Islam even...

... of the now and its futures. Rather, Deseos / رغبات assumes that nonnormative, queer, and female experience is always deeply rooted in place—and invites viewers to experience and imagine the multiple ways that “queer” is always connected to its specific locality, both in place and time. Islam...

... Astuti, Henri, Lita, Ustadz Arif and Masturiah of the Al Fatah Islamic boarding school, the Legal Aid Institute of Yogyakarta, the Women's Network, the Erat Foundation, the Alliance of Independent Journalists in Yogyakarta, Milas Restaurant, the Planned Parenthood Foundation Program Peduli, Biara Roh...

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... .” Trans Sisters , no. 8 : 14 – 27 . Kamal Hala . 2008 . “ Translating Women and Gender: The Experience of Translating The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures into Arabic .” Women's Studies Quarterly 36 , no. 3–4 : 254 – 68 . Stone Sandy . 1991 . “ The Empire Strikes Back...

... and Islamic religion plays a role in trans prejudice in other parts of the world but changes topics before mentioning the role of Buddhism. Finally, Winter pays scant attention to trans women's organizing. Overall, the chapter gives the impression that Thailand is lacking on trans issues without providing...