Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 24513
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.5040/9780755609147
- Publisher
- I.B.Tauris
- ISBN
- 9781784533328
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book articulates a complex thesis that combines legal, historical, anthropological, theological and linguistic analysis to locate and interpret sexual diversity and gender non-conformity across the Muslim World. One of the rare in-depth interdisciplinary studies of such phenomena, the work is dependent on primary sources in 14 languages, including the vernacular of Punjabi khwajasara (gender-variant community). These are difficult to access, because they are either human subjects, relying on unwritten knowledge and performances, or archival manuscripts in archaic languages, addressing the topics often seen as controversial. Extensive archival and ethnographic fieldwork was conducted over more than a decade of research.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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