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
Justine Howe
Part I. Foundational texts in historical and contemporary contexts
Chapter 1. Classical Qurʾanic exegesis and women
Hadia Mubarak
Chapter 2. Sex and marriage in early Islamic law
Carolyn G. Baugh
Chapter 3. Islamic gender ethics: traditional discourses, critiques, and new frameworks of inclusivity
Zahra Ayubi
Chapter 4. Muslima theology
Jerusha Tanner Rhodes
Chapter 5. Gender and the study of Islamic law: from polemics to feminist ethics
Fatima Seedat
Part II. Sex, sexuality, and gender difference
Chapter 6. Applying gender and queer theory to pre-modern sources
Ash Geissinger
Chapter 7. Intersex in Islamic medicine, law, and activism
Indira Falk Gesink
Chapter 8. Sexuality and human rights: actors and arguments
Anissa Helie
Chapter 9. Mixité, gender difference, and the politics of Islam in France after the headscarf ban
Kirsten Wesselhoeft
Part III. Gendered authority and piety
Chapter 10. Gendering the divine: women, femininity, and queer identities on the Sufi path
Merin Shobhana Xavier
Chapter 11. Gender and the Karbala Paradigm: on studying contemporary Shi‘i women
Edith Szanto
Chapter 12. The stabilization of gender in zakat: the margin of freedom and the politics of care
Danielle Widmann Abraham
Chapter 13. Muslim chaplaincy and female religious authority in North America
Sajida Jalalzai
Chapter 14. Malama Ta Ce!: women preachers, audiovisual media and the construction of religious authority in Niamey, Niger
Abdoulaye Sounaye
Part IV. Political and religious displacements
Chapter 15. Gender, Muslims, Islam, and colonial India
Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst
Chapter 16. Islam and gender on the Swahili coast of East Africa
Nathaniel Mathews
Chapter 17. Mujahidun, Mujahidat: balancing gender in the struggle of Jihadi-Salafis
Nathan S. French
Chapter 18. Modelling exile: Syrian women gather to discuss prophetic examples in Jordan
Sarah A. Tobin
Part V. Negotiating law, ethics, and normativity
Chapter 19. Transgressing the boundaries: zina and legal accommodation in the premodern Maghrib
Rosemary Admiral
Chapter 20. Women and Islamic law: decolonizing colonialist feminism
Lena Salaymeh
Chapter 21. The emergence of women's scholarship in Damascus during the late 20th century
Feryal Salem
Chapter 22. Human rights, gender, and the state: Islamic perspectives
Shannon Dunn
Part VI. Vulnerability, care, and violence in Muslim families
Chapter 23. Two ‘quiet’ reproductive revolutions: Islam, gender, and (in)fertility
Marcia C. Inhorn
Chapter 24 Aging and the elderly: diminishing family care systems and need for alternatives
Mary Elaine Hegland
Chapter 25. Domestic violence and US Muslim communities: negotiating advocacy, vulnerability, and gender norms
Juliane Hammer
Chapter 26. #VoiceOut: Sufi hardcore activism in the Lion City
Sophia Rose Arjana
Part VII. Representation, commodification, popular culture
Chapter 27. Hijab, Islamic fashion, and modest clothing: hybrids of modernity and religious commodity
Faegheh Shirazi
Chapter 28. Constructing the 'Muslim woman' in advertising
Kayla Renée Wheeler
Chapter 29. French Muslim women’s clothes: the secular state’s religious war against racialised women
Shabana Mir
Chapter 30. Female filmmakers and Muslim women in cinema
Kristian Petersen
Chapter 31. Gender, race, and American Islamophobia
Megan Goodwin
Biography
Justine Howe is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University, USA.
