"Be content with the decree of Allah": the cis-heterosexual nafs in Shi?i and Sunni fatwas on transsexuality and intersexuality
This article examines the fatwas of Salafi-Sunni and conservative Shi'i scholars on transsexuality, and how their legal reasoning is limited by the cis-heteropatriarchal nature they ascribe to the nafs (self). Most Shi'i jurists in Iran permit sex-reassignment surgeries, while Salafi schol...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: 'Physiology is Theology': Gendered Bodies in Sufi and Islamic Constructions of the Self" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publishing
2022
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| In: |
Body and religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 74-93 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Transsexualism
/ Islamic law
/ Fatwa
/ Shi'ah
/ Salafīyah
/ Patriarchate
/ Sexual minorities
/ Self
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam NCF Sexual ethics NCH Medical ethics XA Law |
| Further subjects: | B
Patriarchy
B Islamic Law B Fatwa B trans and intersex B sex-reassignment surgery |
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