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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 -- VII. Vulnerability, Care, and Violence in Muslim Families: 23. Two 'Quiet' Reproductive Revolutions: Islam, Gender, and (In)Fertility / Marcia C. Inhorn -- 24. Aging and the Elderly: Diminishing Family Care Systems and Need for Alternatives / Mary Elaine Hegland -- 25. Domestic Violence and US Muslim Communities: Negotiating Advocacy, Vulnerability, and Gender Norms / Juliane Hammer -- 26. #Voiceout: Sufi Hardcore Activism in the Lion City / Sophia Arjana -- VIII. Representation, Commodification, Popular Culture: 27. Hijab, Islamic Fashion, and Modest Clothing: Hybrids of Modernity and Religious Commodity / Faegheh Shirazi -- 28. Constructing the Muslim Woman in Advertising / Kayla Renée Wheeler -- 29. French Muslim Women's Clothes: The Secular State's Religious War against Racialised Women / Shabana Mir -- 30. Muslim Women as Images and Image-makers in Global Cinema / Kristian Petersen -- 31. Gender, Race, and American Islamophobia / Megan Goodwin -- Index. "Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centre 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 twenty-five chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into seven parts: Foundational Texts in Historical and Contemporary Contexts Sexuality and Sexual 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"--
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