Date: Monday, February 24, 2014. 7:00 PM.
Location: Bldg 160, Rm 124
A lecture by Behnam Sadeghi (Stanford University). Part of a lecture series on Sexuality, Gender, and Religion. Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and co-sponsored by the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. For more information about the series, please contact Prof. Linda Hess. This lecture is about pre-modern Islamic law and its intersection with gender. It gives a brief introduction to pre-modern Islamic law, which was organized according to “schools of law,” referring to examples of the laws of these schools on matters relating to women in marriage, divorce, and ritual prayers. It shows how laws could change and how jurists justified legal change, illustrating the process with an example relating to women’s participation in prayers held in congregation.
Location: Bldg 160, Rm 124
A lecture by Behnam Sadeghi (Stanford University). Part of a lecture series on Sexuality, Gender, and Religion. Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and co-sponsored by the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. For more information about the series, please contact Prof. Linda Hess. This lecture is about pre-modern Islamic law and its intersection with gender. It gives a brief introduction to pre-modern Islamic law, which was organized according to “schools of law,” referring to examples of the laws of these schools on matters relating to women in marriage, divorce, and ritual prayers. It shows how laws could change and how jurists justified legal change, illustrating the process with an example relating to women’s participation in prayers held in congregation.