عنوان

Hermeneutics of desire: ontologies of gender and desire in early Hanafī law

شماره

TL49183

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Hermeneutics of desire: ontologies of gender and desire in early Hanafī law

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Saadia Yacoob

نام ساير پديدآوران

Moosa, Ebrahim; Prasad, Leela

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Duke University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016

نام خاص و کميت اثر

258

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Ali, Kecia; Hammer, Juliane; Morgan, David

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-42909-1

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Religion

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Duke University

امتياز متن

2016

متن يادداشت

This dissertation examines the construction of gendered legal subjects in the influential legal works of the eleventh century Hanafi jurist, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi (d. 483 A.H./1090 C.E.). In particular, I explore how gendered subjects are imagined in legal matters pertaining to sexual desire. Through a close reading of several legal cases, I argue that gendered subjects in his legal work al-Mabsut are constructed through an ontological framework that conceptualizes men as active and desiring and women as passive and desirable. This binary construal of gendered nature serves as a hermeneutical given in al-Sarakhsi's legal argumentation and is produced through a phallocentric epistemology. Al-Sarakhsi's discussions of desire and sexuality are mediated through the experience of the male body. While the dissertation endeavors to show the centrality of the active/passive binary in al-Sarakhsi's legal reasoning, it also highlights the dissonances and fissures in the text's construction of gendered subjects of desire. By tracing the intricacies of al-Sarakhsi's legal reasoning, I note moments in which the text makes contradictory claims about gender and desire, as well as moments in which al-Sarakhsi must contend with realities that seemingly run up against his ontological framework. These moments in the text draw our attention to al-Sarakhsi's active attempt at maintaining the coherence of the gendered ontology. I thus argue that the gendered ontology in al-Sarakhsi's text is a legal fiction that both reflects his assumptions about gendered nature but is also constructed to rationalize legal precedence.

موضوع مستند نشده

Religion; Law; Islamic Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Gender and sexuality;Hanafi law;History of sexuality;Islam and gender;Islamic law

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Xia, Yakang

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Moosa, Ebrahim; Prasad, Leela

تقسيم فرعي

Religion

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Duke University

شماره بازیابی

1864643289; 10239855

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y