Saqer A. Almarri

List of John Benjamins publications for which Saqer A. Almarri plays a role.

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Almarri, Saqer A. 2024 Chapter 5. Sex and the stability of a legal gender system: Dilemmas of defining intersex in Islamic law The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence: Biosemiotics, semiotics and translation studies, Marais, Kobus, Reine Meylaerts and Maud Gonne (eds.), pp. 109–127 | Chapter
Islamic law’s gender system is based on a conception of humans as sexually dimorphic. The presence of nonbinary bodies, specifically the khunthā, posed a challenge to the gender system. Law practitioners, like ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Isnawī (d. 722/1322), attempted to redefine sex and intersexuality to… read more