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Mehrdad Alipour

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Islamic Studies/Iranian and Shiʿi Studies/Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Islam/Researcher and Lecturer @UtrechtUni https://beyondbinaries.nl

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Geloof in Transitie - TRANS Magazine Onderzoeker Mehrdad Alipour over gender, seksualiteit en de islam.

Lees mijn essay over mijn bezoek aan een genderbevestigende chirurgische kliniek in de VS, waarin persoonlijke ervaringen worden gecombineerd met kritische reflecties in transmagazine: transmagazine.nl/geloof-in-tr...

27.07.2025 18:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Intersex Insights | School of Nursing, Psychotherapy & Community Health

Presenting tomorrow at Dublin City University at the conference “Intersex Insights.” Sharing my research on non-binary intersex in Islamic legal tradition.

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08.06.2025 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Curious about the topic of the NISIS Autumn School '25? The wait is over! Held on October 29-31, get ready for: "Gender Relations in Pre-Modern and Modern Muslim Contexts." Answer the CfP, which closes on Friday September 26, via this link: nisis.sites.uu.nl/2025/02/19/r...
See you there!

16.05.2025 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What if the intersex body was more than a legal category in (Shiʿi) Islamic thought? My latest article explores how jurists like Sayyid Kāẓim al-Yazdī grappled with #intersex as an ontological reality—beyond the male/female binary. Now online & open access in ILS: brill.com/view/journal...

02.05.2025 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Mehrdad Alipour, "Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shīʿī Discourse" (Brill, 2024) - New Books Network

I was recently interviewed by Shehnaz Haqqani about my book Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam. I shared in-depth insights into my methodology and the core arguments—exploring challenges and pathways toward a more inclusive understanding of sexuality in Islam: newbooksnetwork.com/negotiating-...

01.05.2025 10:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Faith in Transition: A Week Inside a Gender Surgery Clinic Islamic law does not inherently oppose non-binary gender and/or sex, and certain Muslim jurists have advanced compelling arguments for an alternative body politics.

An essay based on my visit to GAS clinic at Rush University Hospital in Chicago.

“Faith in Transition: A Week Inside a Gender Surgery Clinic”
Available here: www.e-ir.info/2025/04/24/f...

The essay is brief and draws from my observations and reflections during the time I spent at the clinic.

25.04.2025 00:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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