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Course name: Gender & Sexuality in Islamic Texts and Practices

Time/Date: 6:30 - 8:00pm, Mondays, Aug 4th - Oct 27th. No class on Sep 1st.

Course fee: 195~250USD (sliding scale, pay what you can)

Instructor: Dr. Sulayman (Professor of Religion, PhD in Anthropology)

• Are you aware that there is a rigorous debate among Muslim scholars over gender and sexuality that goes back centuries?

• Do you know that non-binary and non-cisgendered ways of being have existed in all Muslim societies, from Arabia to Persia to Southeast Asia?

• Are you curious about transgender and queer Muslims and the canonical textual sources they cite and the organizations they have established around the world?

• Do you want to arm yourself with robust knowledge to combat Islamophobia, Orientalism, and rainbow-washing/pinkwashing that are being deployed to justify the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine?

This course will draw on primary sources, historiographical work, and ethnographies of Islam. We will read Muslim scholarly views of gender and sexuality against key texts in Western feminism. We will identify the key issues at stake, and how these issues have been addressed. We will also explore the intersection of religion, race, and gender, and ask to what extent what we learn in this class can speak to the fight for the liberation of Palestine and the collective freedom of us all.