The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender

INTRODUCTION: ASSESSING THE FIELD OF ISLAM AND GENDER -- I. Foundational Texts in Historical and Contemporary Contexts: 1. Classical Qurʼanic Exegesis and Women / Hadia Mubarak -- 2. Sex and Marriage in Early Islamic Law / Carolyn Baugh -- 3. Islamic Gender Ethics: Traditional Discourses, Critiques, and New Frameworks of Inclusivity / Zahra Ayubi -- 4. Muslima Theology / Jerusha Tanner Rhodes -- 5. Paradigm Shifts and Transformative Scholarship: The Intellectual Impact of Women's Scholarly Works in Damascus in the late Twentieth Century / Feryal Salem -- II. Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Difference: 6. Applying Gender and Queer Theory to Pre-Modern Sources / Ash Geissinger -- 7. Intersex in pre-modern Islamic medicine, law, and activism / Indira Gesink -- 8. Sexuality and human rights: Actors & Factors / Anissa Helie -- 9. Mixité, Gender Difference, and the Politics of Islam in France After the Headscarf Ban / Kirsten Wesselhoeft -- III. Gendered Authority and Piety: 10. Gendering the Divine: Women, Femininity, and Queer Identities on the Sufi Path / Merin Shobhana Xavier -- 11. Gender and the Karbala Paradigm: On Studying Contemporary Shiʻi Women / Edith Szanto -- 12. The Stabilization of Gender in Zakat: The Margin of Freedom and the Politics of Care / Danielle Widmann Abraham -- 13. Muslim Chaplaincy and Female Religious Authority in North America / Sajida Jalalzai --14. Malama Ta Ce!: Women Preachers, Audiovisual Media and the Construction of Religious Authority in Niamey, Niger / Abdoulaye Sounaye -- IV. Political and Religious Displacements: 15. Gender, Muslims, Islam, and Colonial India / Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst -- 16. Islam and Gender on the Swahili Coast of East Africa / Nathaniel Mathews -- 17. Mujahidun, Mujahidat: Balancing Gender in the Struggle of Jihadi Salafis / Nathan French -- 18. Modelling Exile: Syrian Women Gather to Discuss Prophetic Examples in Jordan / Sarah Tobin -- V. Negotiating Law, Ethics, and Normativity: 19. Transgressing the Boundaries: Zina and Legal Accommodation in the Premodern Maghrib / Rosemary Admiral -- 20. Women and Islamic law: from colonialist feminism to decoloniality / Lena Salaymeh -- 21. Gender and Islamic Law: From Polemics to Feminist Ethics / Fatima Seedat -- 22. Human Rights, Gender, and the State: Islamic Perspectives / Shannon Dunn.