Sexual Morality at the Egyptian Bar: Female Circumcision, Sex Change Operations, and Motives For Suing

Dupret, Baudouin

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“…The role that these principles can play can be illustrated in the case of Egypt with a brief historical case study (historical because the events took place 20 years ago; see Balz 1998;Dupret 2002). In July 1996, the Egyptian Minister of Health promulgated a decree prohibiting FGC, and making it a crime to perform it.…”

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Islamic Law, Women's Rights, and State Law: The Cases of Female Genital Cutting and Child Marriage

Wodon¹

2015

The Review of Faith & International Affairs

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ssues related to Islamic law, women's rights, and state law have long been and remain deeply contested. This is most evident in debates around family law reform in majority Muslim countries. As one recent example, in Mali, a secular state according to its Constitution, the National Assembly adopted in August 2009 a new family code proposed by the government. The new code consisted of 1,143 articles, and it had emerged from a decade-long process of consultations after several previous unsuccessful attempts at reforming family law. The new code included provisions to: set the minimum age for marriage at 18; change inheritance rules for women including the ability for them to remain in their dwelling upon the death of their husband; change rules for adoption and the recognition of children born out of wedlock; define marriage as a secular and public act that should be ratified by the state; and protect the integrity of the human body (which relates among others to the issue of female genital cutting or FGC 1). Large demonstrations were organized in Bamako to protest the adoption of the new code. In a statement on the reform proposal, the High Islamic Council of Mali repeatedly used the words "visions from another culture, another milieu" to characterize the reform (Diamoutani 2009). Ultimately, the reform was not signed into law, illustrating how strong opposition to reform, including for changing the minimum age of marriage or preventing FGC, persists in some countries. At the outset, it must be very clear that neither FGC nor child marriage are "Islamic" problems. FGC and child marriage are practiced in many non-Muslim communities, and both

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Section: Interpreting Shari'a: a Case Studymentioning

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Islamic Law, Women's Rights, and State Law: The Cases of Female Genital Cutting and Child Marriage

Wodon¹

2015

The Review of Faith & International Affairs

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“…This is the case in the field of bioethics, where some scientists try to show how to read the scriptures in the light of the development of knowledge. SeeDupret 2002 and Ghaly 2015. …”

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Islamic Positivism and Scientific Truth: Qur’an and Archeology in a Creationist Documentary Film

Dupret

Gutron

2016

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Creationism is a religious doctrine that claims that the world is God's creation. "Scientific creationism" is a theory according to which the study of the origins of the natural and social worlds proves that they are not the product of evolution but of divine work. This theory has taken variegated forms which are function of the religious contexts of their formulation, among other things. Most of these forms share reject Darwinism, often understood in its truncated vulgate and its abusive social extension, but are not limited to this anti-evolutionist stance. The ambition of some of them is to prove that science, far from contradicting and opposing religion, actually confirms it. This is especially true in the case of Muslim creationism and its claim to Qur'an foreknowledge. In this perspective, creationism adopts a syllogistic type: divine revelation is truth; good science confirms truth; divine revelation is henceforth scientifically proven. Two truth orders are simultaneously mobilized and their convergence leads to their reciprocal reinforcement. Adnan Oktar, alias Harun Yahya, is a prominent Muslim "creationist" figure, a predicate justified by his publication in 2006 of an Atlas of Creation, which was largely distributed in Europe and North America, and was condemned by the scientific and educational communities. His website hosts many texts and documentary films dealing with varied topics, stretching from natural sciences to social issues, via history and archeology. Among the documentary films, one finds "Evidence of the true faith in historical sources", which is the object of our analysis. 2 This is a small audiovisual production which, starting from some

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“…The case concerned a medical student at al-Azhar University originally named Sayyid who became Sally. Egyptian doctors decided to operate on her after having detected his "psychological hermaphroditism" (alkhunūtha al-nafsiyya) (Dupret 2001(Dupret , 54, 2013. This concept seems to be connected to the Muslim notion of physical hermaphroditism discussed above.…”

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Sexualities: Transsexualities: Middle East, West Africa, North Africa

Fortier

Encyclopedia of Women &Amp; Islamic Cultures

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Many terms have existed in the Muslim world for these third-gender persons, and they have varied through space and time. In addition to discussing these terms, this article will include a discussion of the social practices behind them, enriched by literary and cinematographic examples. Although these cultural realities appear di ferent at rst glance, they possess many similarities, especially regarding the gure of the "e feminate man," which is the most common. Recent medical advances have made it possible for individuals to take hormones and undergo sex-change surgery (Fortier 2014a, 2014b). Di ferences of opinion Article Table of Contents

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Sexual Morality at the Egyptian Bar: Female Circumcision, Sex Change Operations, and Motives For Suing

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Islamic Law, Women's Rights, and State Law: The Cases of Female Genital Cutting and Child Marriage

Islamic Law, Women's Rights, and State Law: The Cases of Female Genital Cutting and Child Marriage

Islamic Positivism and Scientific Truth: Qur’an and Archeology in a Creationist Documentary Film

Sexualities: Transsexualities: Middle East, West Africa, North Africa

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