<p>This dissertation examines the construction of gendered legal subjects in the influential legal works of the eleventh century Ḥanafī jurist, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sarakhsī (d. 483 A.H./1090 C.E.). In particular, I explore how gendered subjects are imagined in legal matters pertaining to sexual desire. Through a close reading of several legal cases, I argue that gendered subjects in his legal work al-Mabsūṭ are constructed through an ontological framework that conceptualizes men as active and desiring and women as passive and desirable. This binary construal of gendered nature serves as a hermeneutical given in al-Sarakhsī’s legal argumentation and is produced through a phallocentric epistemology. Al-Sarakhsī’s discussions of desire and sexuality are mediated through the experience of the male body. While the dissertation endeavors to show the centrality of the active/passive binary in al-Sarakhsī’s legal reasoning, it also highlights the dissonances and fissures in the text’s construction of gendered subjects of desire. By tracing the intricacies of al-Sarakhsī’s legal reasoning, I note moments in which the text makes contradictory claims about gender and desire, as well as moments in which al-Sarakhsī must contend with realities that seemingly run up against his ontological framework. These moments in the text draw our attention to al-Sarakhsī’s active attempt at maintaining the coherence of the gendered ontology. I thus argue that the gendered ontology in al-Sarakhsī’s text is a legal fiction that both reflects his assumptions about gendered nature but is also constructed to rationalize legal precedence.</p> / Dissertation

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2016-08-12T16:27:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Kayte Chaves Lima.pdf: 1123026 bytes, checksum: b64a746dc5527b48ba30c1b76360a6d9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-12T16:27:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kayte Chaves Lima.pdf: 1123026 bytes, checksum: b64a746dc5527b48ba30c1b76360a6d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation aims to analyze the Islamic religious aspects and the implications of gender relations in Islam to the Muslin women healthcare, and, through it, discuss the importance for the healthcare providers having the previous knowledge of the cultural influence of Islamic faith and health related perceptions, so it can be proposed a health assistance congruent with these women, taking as reference the Brazilian Women’s Integrated Health Attention Policy. This research has a qualitative approach, with the development of a field research and applying a semi structured interview guide, with questions about Islam and women’s health. A total of ten interviews were conducted, those being: four women converted to Islam, three women from a Muslim family, two sheiks and one social assistant. The interviews were conducted at the Islam Divulgation Center to Latin America and Caribe (CDIAL) and at World Assembly of Muslin Youth in Latin America (WAMY) / A presente dissertação tem por objetivo analisar os aspectos religiosos islâmicos e as implicações das relações de gênero no islam sobre a assistência de saúde às mulheres muçulmanas, e através disto, discutir a importância do conhecimento prévio do islamismo pelos profissionais de saúde para propor uma assistência de saúde congruente a estas mulheres, tendo por referência a Política Nacional de Atenção Integral à Saúde da Mulher. Esta pesquisa tem abordagem qualitativa, com o desenvolvimento de pesquisa de campo e aplicação de um roteiro de perguntas semi-estruturado, com questões relacionadas ao islamismo e à saúde das mulheres. Ao todo, foram entrevistadas dez pessoas, sendo estas: quatro mulheres revertidas ao islam, três mulheres de família muçulmana, dois sheiks e uma assistente social. As entrevistas foram realizadas no Centro de Divulgação do Islam para a América Latina e o Caribe (CDIAL) e na Assembléia Mundial da Juventude Islâmica na América Latina (WAMY).