Mehrdad Alipour and Indira Falk Gesink (eds.), Intersex and the (Non)Binary Body in Classical Muslim Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses, Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2026, pp. 310.
Mehrdad Alipour and Indira Falk Gesink, “Introduction,” in Intersex and the (Non)Binary Body in Classical Muslim Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses, Alipour and Gesink (eds.), Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2026: 15–45.
Indira Falk Gesink and Mehrdad Alipour, “The Intersex Character (al-khunthā) in Classical Arabic Lexicography and Literature,” in Intersex and the (Non)Binary Body in Classical Muslim Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses, Alipour and Gesink (eds.), Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2026: 59–74.
Mehrdad Alipour, “The Intersex Body in Classical Shiʿi Scriptural and Legal Traditions: Embodiment, Agency, and Beyond,” in Intersex and the (Non)Binary Body in Classical Muslim Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses, Alipour and Gesink (eds.), Leiden: Leiden University Press,2026: 161–209.
Mehrdad Alipour, “Tracing Difference: Zakariyyā l-Rāzī and the Intersex Body in Classical Persian Medical Discourse,” in Intersex and the (Non)Binary Body in Classical Muslim Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses, Alipour and Gesink (eds.), Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2026: 255–284.
Indira Falk Gesink and Mehrdad Alipour, “Conclusion,” in Intersex and the (Non)Binary Body in Classical Muslim Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses, Alipour and Gesink (eds.), Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2026: 285–299.
Mehrdad Alipour, “Beyond Anachronism: Questioning Modern Gender and Sexuality Language in Classical Persian Literature,” In Gender and Sexuality in Persian Literary and Religious Traditions: Embodied Encounters, edited by Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Leiden University press, 2026, pp. 181–206.
Mehrdad Alipour, “Navigating Body Politics in Shiʿi Legal Tradition: Examining Sayyid Kāẓim al-Yazdī’s Account of Non-Binary Intersex,” Islamic Law and Society, 32:3 (2025): 262–315 (open access): here
Mehrdad Alipour, Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-Hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shiʿi Discourse (Series: Studies in Islamic Law and society, vol. 55), Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2024, pp. 345.
Mehrdad Alipour, “Homosexuality in the Prospect of Before Revelation,” in Wege zu einer Ethik: Neue Ansätze aus Theologie und Recht zwischen modernen Herausforderungen und islamischer Tradition. Rana Alsoufi, Serdar Kurnaz, Mira Sievers (eds.). Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos, 2023: 201–235.
Mehrdad Alipour, “Ethical Assessment of Acts in the Prospect of Before Revelation: An Examination of Šarīf al-Murtaḍā’s Approach,” in Wege zu einer Ethik: Neue Ansätze aus Theologie und Recht zwischen modernen Herausforderungen und islamischer Tradition. Rana Alsoufi, Serdar Kurnaz, Mira Sievers (eds.). Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos, 2023: 85–110.
Mehrdad Alipour, “The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness: Legal-hermeneutical Examinations of Four Islamic Fatwās,” Journal ofMiddle East Women’s Studies 18:3 (2022): 359–386. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/877201
