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Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World - History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World - History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (Hardcover)
Series: Library of Islamic South Asia
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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.
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