6 June 2023 Read my latest blog entitled “Navigating Differences: clarifying the urgency of constructive dialogues with traditional ʿulamā’” by clicking on the following link: here In this post, I briefly share my take and thoughts regarding a public statement so-called “Navigating Differences: Clarifying Sexual and Gender Ethics in Islam” published online on the…

Great to see that the book titled “Wege zu einer Ethik” (edited by Alsoufi, Kurnaz, and Sievers) has been published. It was part of a two-year joint project (Goethe University of Frankfurt and Humboldt University of Berlin) funded by AIWG: https://www.nomos-shop.de/nomos/titel/wege-zu-einer-ethik-id-105716/ My contribution to this volume includes two articles: 1. “Ethical Assessment of Acts in…

My article entitled “The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness: Legal-Hermeneutical Examinations of Four Islamic Fatwas” has recently been published in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (18(3): 359-386. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10022132).   In this essay, I investigate Muslim jurists’ legal opinions (fatwas) on permitting gender-confirming surgery (GCS) for various groups of intersex and/or transgender people. However, these fatwas have been critiqued…

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Workshop: Intersex Identity and Rights: Debating Some Urgent Matters   On November 8, 2022 (from 14.00 – 17.00), an invited group of Dutch and European activists and researchers who work on intersex identities, rights, and spiritual care will come together to discuss urgent matters concerning intersex identity and rights in Western European societies. The aim of this…

Presenting at International Conference  I presented a paper entitled “Sexuality in the Prospect of Before Revelation Discourse in Sharīf al-Murtaḍā’s Approach: the case of homosexuality” at the International Conference of “Faces of Islam: Of Tolerance and Coercion” organized by the ERC Advanced project “Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam” on the 13th &…