Sex reassignment in Islamic Law: the dilemma of transsexuals

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Sex reassignment in Islamic Law: the dilemma of transsexuals

Classical Islamic law in terms of assigning legal rules, inter alia, explicitly recognizes four genders among human beings, namely male, female, hermaphrodite, and effeminate male. In this context, the body of rules that regulate male and female behaviors is regarded as normative. Hermaphrodite upo...

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Main Author:	Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Centre for Promoting Ideas 2011
Subjects:	KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/6785/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/6785/2/Transexuals_islamiclaw-2.pdf

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