ABSTRACT
Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centres on gendered concerns, The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender is an outstanding reference source to key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into seven parts:
- Foundational texts in historical and contemporary contexts
- Sex, sexuality, and gender difference
- Gendered piety and authority
- Political and religious displacements
- Negotiating law, ethics, and normativity
- Vulnerability, care, and violence in Muslim families
- Representation, commodification, and popular culture
These sections examine key debates and problems, including: feminist and queer approaches to the Qur’an, hadith, Islamic law, and ethics, Sufism, devotional practice, pilgrimage, charity, female religious authority, global politics of feminism, material and consumer culture, masculinity, fertility and the family, sexuality, sexual rights, domestic violence, marriage practices, and gendered representations of Muslims in film and media.
The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, Islamic studies, and gender studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, area studies, sociology, anthropology, and history.
Introduction Part I. Foundational Texts in Historical and Contemporary Contexts Chapter 1. Classical Qurʾanic Exegesis and Women Chapter 2. Sex and Marriage in Early Islamic Law Chapter 3. Islamic Gender Ethics: Traditional Discourses, Critiques, and New Frameworks of Inclusivity Chapter 4. Muslima Theology Chapter 5. Gender and the Study of Islamic Law: From Polemics to Feminist Ethics Part II. Sex, sexuality, and gender difference Chapter 6. Applying Gender and Queer Theory to Pre-Modern Sources Chapter 7. Intersex in pre-modern Islamic medicine, law, and activism Chapter 8. Sexuality and human rights: Actors and arguments Chapter 9. Mixité, Gender Difference, and the Politics of Islam in France After the Headscarf Ban Part III. Gendered Authority and Piety Chapter 10. Gendering the Divine: Women, Femininity, and Queer Identities on the Sufi Path Chapter 11. Gender and the Karbala Paradigm: On Studying Contemporary Shi‘i Women Chapter 12. The Stabilization of Gender in Zakat: The Margin of Freedom and the Politics of Care Chapter 13. Muslim Chaplaincy and Female Religious Authority in North America Chapter 14. Malama Ta Ce!: Women Preachers, Audiovisual Media and the Construction of Religious Authority in Niamey, Niger Part IV. Political and Religious Displacements Chapter 15. Gender, Muslims, Islam, and Colonial India Chapter 16. Islam and Gender on the Swahili Coast of East Africa Chapter 17. Mujahidun, Mujahidat: Balancing Gender in the Struggle of Jihadi-Salafis Chapter 18. Modelling Exile: Syrian Women Gather to Discuss Prophetic Examples in Jordan Part V. Negotiating Law, Ethics, and Normativity Chapter 19. Transgressing the Boundaries: Zina and Legal Accommodation in the Premodern Maghrib Chapter 20. Women and Islamic law: decolonizing colianialist feminism Chapter 21. The emergence of women's scholarship in Damascus during the late 20th century Chapter 22. Human Rights, Gender, and the State: Islamic Perspectives Part VI. Vulnerability, Care, and Violence in Muslim Families Chapter 23. Two ‘Quiet’ Reproductive Revolutions: Islam, Gender, and (In)Fertility Chapter 24 Aging and the Elderly: Diminishing Family Care Systems and Need for Alternatives Chapter 25. Domestic Violence and US Muslim Communities: Negotiating Advocacy, Vulnerability, and Gender Norms Chapter 26. #VoiceOut: Sufi Hardcore Activism in the Lion City Part VII. Representation, Commodification, and Popular Culture Chapter 27. Hijab, Islamic Fashion, and Modest Clothing: Hybrids of Modernity and Religious Commodity Chapter 28. Constructing the 'Muslim Woman' in Advertising Chapter 29. French Muslim Women’s Clothes: The Secular State’s Religious War against Racialised Women Chapter 30. Female Filmmakers and Muslim Women in Cinema Chapter 31. Gender, Race, and American Islamophobia
