"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...
| Otros títulos: | "Special Issue: 'Physiology is Theology': Gendered Bodies in Sufi and Islamic Constructions of the Self" |
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Equinox Publishing
2022
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| En: |
Body and religion
Año: 2022, Volumen: 6, Número: 1, Páginas: 74-93 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Transexualismo
/ Derecho musulmán
/ Fátua
/ Chiíes
/ Salafismo
/ Patriarcado
/ Heteronormativität
/ Self
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | AD Sociología de la religión BJ Islam NCF Ética sexual NCH Ética de la medicina XA Derecho |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Patriarchy
B Islamic Law B Fatwa B trans and intersex B sex-reassignment surgery |
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| Sumario: | 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 scholars forbid them as adulterations to the body except in the case of intersex persons. Both inherit normative legal reasoning that privileges the able-bodied, adult, free man as normative. They reference premodern rulings on the khuntha (those with ambiguous genitalia) and build upon the criteria developed by their predecessors to determine an individual’s so-called "true" sex/gender. These scholars also take part in a contemporary world in which the body is medically and psychologically overburdened with gendered meanings. After analyzing these fatwas, I discuss how these cis-heteropatriarchal conceptions of the nafs greatly limit juristic creativity in addressing the spiritual wellbeing of trans, intersex, and non-binary Muslims. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.22482 |