Non-binary sexual and gender identities in the community: the khunth̄ as an isolated being in the mosque
The Mamlūk jurist ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Isnawī’s legal manual on the cases involving a khunth? (an intersex person) was comprehensive on matters of religious practice. It allows us to understand the underlying doctrinal strategies that the jurists used in regulating the khunthā’s access to public life. T...
| Published in: | Body and religion |
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| Subtitles: | Special Issue: The Qur'an and affect |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publishing
[2019]
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| In: |
Body and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 166-187 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Isnawī, ʿAbd-ar-Raḥīm Ibn-al-Ḥasan al- 1305-1370
/ Islamic law
/ Transsexuals
/ Isolation (Sociology)
/ Mosque
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam |
| Further subjects: | B
Intersexuality
B Khuntha B Gender variance |
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| Summary: | The Mamlūk jurist ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Isnawī’s legal manual on the cases involving a khunth? (an intersex person) was comprehensive on matters of religious practice. It allows us to understand the underlying doctrinal strategies that the jurists used in regulating the khunthā’s access to public life. This article attempts to examine specific strategies that al-Isnawi used in his legal manual’s chapter on salah (ritual prayer). Through an exploration of the doctrines in the chapter affecting a khunthā’s comportment and location, I assess the possible consequences of such doctrines on the life of a khunthā?. The major consequence is the khunth?’s social isolation in the name of accommodating them in a community’s mosque by providing a specific row for them. The accommodation requires outing a khunth? as such within the community space, leading to further isolation, even when the khunth? is not a singular subject within the community. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.15722 |