Marion Holmes Katz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3830904 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marion Holmes Katz |
| NOMBRES | Marion Holmes |
| APELLIDO | Katz |
| FIRMA | KATZ M H |
| AFILIACIONES | New York University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-1506-935X |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Is Marriage Really (Like) a Sale? Reflections of Muslim Jurists of the Fifth–Sixth Century AH / Eleventh–Twelfth Century CE
Since the publication of Kecia Ali’s Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (2010) it has been a commonplace in the field that the pre-modern Islamic law of marriage and divorce was fundamentally shaped by an analogy between marriage and sale. However, that study focuses rigorously on sources from the formative period of Islamic law. This paper extends its inquiry to a selection of scholars from the eleventh and twelfth century CE , showing that by …
Wives and Work
It is widely held today that classical Islamic law denies that wives have any obligation to do housework. Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on wives’ domestic labor that recasts the historical relationship between Islamic law and ethics.
The Multiplicity of the Pre-Modern Islamic Tradition
Collective Liability in Islam
Collective Liability in Islam: The ʿĀqila and Blood-Money Payments. By Nurit Tsafrir. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xviii + 167. $99.99
The Problem of Abortion in Classical Sunni fiqh
Muhammad’s Body
Michael Muhammad Knight’s thought-provoking and compelling new book joins a growing literature using materiality and embodiment as lenses for the study of Islam. Like Adam Bursi’s work on relics and ritual and Travis Zadeh’s work on the physicality of the Qur’an, it uses early Islamic texts to access a world of substances, bodies, and the forces and contacts that are understood to bind them. The texts themselves are understood not simply as carri…
Images of Muhammad
Images of Muhammad: Narratives of the Prophet in Islam across the Centuries. By Tarif Khalidi. New York: Doubleday, 2009. Pp. ix + 342. $27
Muslim Midwives
Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East. By Abner Giladi. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 195. $95
Gendered Morality
Book Review
Beyond Ḥalāl and Ḥarām
Scholarship on gender in medieval Islam often focuses on the normative rulings of the Sharīʿa, examining rules applying to women through the lens of ḥalāl (‘permissible’) and ḥarām (‘forbidden’). However, these issues can also be approached in terms of models of pious masculinity. This paper focuses on the theme of ghayra (‘jealousy’) as a normative masculine emotion in the work of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 1350). While the word ghayra most dire…
Women in the Mosque
Women in the Mosque
"Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, Marion Holmes Katz shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's behavior. Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Katz connects s…
Shame (Ḥayāʾ) as an Affective Disposition in Islamic Legal Thought
The recent “ethical turn” in the study of Islamic law has directed much attention to the cultivation of “virtuous passions” as central to the project of the classical Sharīʿa. This model has been particularly salient in the study of normative rituals, and some scholars have extended it to encompass much broader social and disciplinary aspects of the ideal Sharʿī order. The present paper focuses on the concept of ḥayāʾ (shame), understood as the f…
Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice
The five daily prayers (Salāt) that constitute the second pillar of Islam deeply pervade the everyday life of observant Muslims. Until now, however, no general study has analyzed the rules governing Salāt, the historical dimensions of its practice and the rich variety of ways that it has been interpreted within the Islamic tradition. Marion Holmes Katz's richly textured book offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretation…
Muhammad's Grave
Women's Mawlid Performances in Sanaa and the Construction of “Popular Islam”
Muslim women have often cultivated ritual activities that fall outside the framework of normative Islam as defined by elite male scholars, activities that are frequently characterized as “popular” Islam. Although it proves problematic to define “popular Islam” as a rigorous analytic category, it is important to recognize that different groups of Muslims (including the uneducated, the poor, rural populations, and women) have had differential abili…
Sexual Ethics and Islam
Kecia Ali’s Sexual Ethics and Islam is a fresh and incisive examination of avariety of issues related to marriage and sexuality. Its primary objective is to engage with the values and aspirations of contemporary American Muslims,although it should also find a broad non-Muslim audience in undergraduatecourses and among non-specialist readers. Throughout the book, Ali analyzesthe concerns of a Muslim community striving both to realize a visionof ju…
The Study of Islamic Ritual and the Meaning of Wuḍūʾ
The academic study of Islamic ritual, interested scholars agree, has been sorely neglected. Particularly in the 1980s, a number of voices arose identifying and lamenting this lack. “Neither in terms of rich comparative study nor in terms of interpretive study of Muslim ritual on its own terms,” wrote William Graham in 1981, “do we have any really significant work to build upon”. Although “Islam itself places great emphasis on ritual activities”, …
Body of Text
Women's Mawlid Performances in Sanaa and the Construction of “Popular Islam”
Muslim women have often cultivated ritual activities that fall outside the framework of normative Islam as defined by elite male scholars, activities that are frequently characterized as “popular” Islam. Although it proves problematic to define “popular Islam” as a rigorous analytic category, it is important to recognize that different groups of Muslims (including the uneducated, the poor, rural populations, and women) have had differential abili…
Muhammad's Grave
Is Marriage Really (Like) a Sale? Reflections of Muslim Jurists of the Fifth–Sixth Century AH / Eleventh–Twelfth Century CE
Since the publication of Kecia Ali’s Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (2010) it has been a commonplace in the field that the pre-modern Islamic law of marriage and divorce was fundamentally shaped by an analogy between marriage and sale. However, that study focuses rigorously on sources from the formative period of Islamic law. This paper extends its inquiry to a selection of scholars from the eleventh and twelfth century CE , showing that by …
Body of Text
The Study of Islamic Ritual and the Meaning of Wuḍūʾ
The academic study of Islamic ritual, interested scholars agree, has been sorely neglected. Particularly in the 1980s, a number of voices arose identifying and lamenting this lack. “Neither in terms of rich comparative study nor in terms of interpretive study of Muslim ritual on its own terms,” wrote William Graham in 1981, “do we have any really significant work to build upon”. Although “Islam itself places great emphasis on ritual activities”, …
Sexual Ethics and Islam
Kecia Ali’s Sexual Ethics and Islam is a fresh and incisive examination of avariety of issues related to marriage and sexuality. Its primary objective is to engage with the values and aspirations of contemporary American Muslims,although it should also find a broad non-Muslim audience in undergraduatecourses and among non-specialist readers. Throughout the book, Ali analyzesthe concerns of a Muslim community striving both to realize a visionof ju…
Women's Mawlid Performances in Sanaa and the Construction of “Popular Islam”
Muslim women have often cultivated ritual activities that fall outside the framework of normative Islam as defined by elite male scholars, activities that are frequently characterized as “popular” Islam. Although it proves problematic to define “popular Islam” as a rigorous analytic category, it is important to recognize that different groups of Muslims (including the uneducated, the poor, rural populations, and women) have had differential abili…
Muhammad's Grave
Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice
The five daily prayers (Salāt) that constitute the second pillar of Islam deeply pervade the everyday life of observant Muslims. Until now, however, no general study has analyzed the rules governing Salāt, the historical dimensions of its practice and the rich variety of ways that it has been interpreted within the Islamic tradition. Marion Holmes Katz's richly textured book offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretation…
Women in the Mosque
Women in the Mosque
"Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, Marion Holmes Katz shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's behavior. Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Katz connects s…
Shame (Ḥayāʾ) as an Affective Disposition in Islamic Legal Thought
The recent “ethical turn” in the study of Islamic law has directed much attention to the cultivation of “virtuous passions” as central to the project of the classical Sharīʿa. This model has been particularly salient in the study of normative rituals, and some scholars have extended it to encompass much broader social and disciplinary aspects of the ideal Sharʿī order. The present paper focuses on the concept of ḥayāʾ (shame), understood as the f…
Beyond Ḥalāl and Ḥarām
Scholarship on gender in medieval Islam often focuses on the normative rulings of the Sharīʿa, examining rules applying to women through the lens of ḥalāl (‘permissible’) and ḥarām (‘forbidden’). However, these issues can also be approached in terms of models of pious masculinity. This paper focuses on the theme of ghayra (‘jealousy’) as a normative masculine emotion in the work of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 1350). While the word ghayra most dire…
Gendered Morality
Book Review
The Problem of Abortion in Classical Sunni fiqh
Muhammad’s Body
Michael Muhammad Knight’s thought-provoking and compelling new book joins a growing literature using materiality and embodiment as lenses for the study of Islam. Like Adam Bursi’s work on relics and ritual and Travis Zadeh’s work on the physicality of the Qur’an, it uses early Islamic texts to access a world of substances, bodies, and the forces and contacts that are understood to bind them. The texts themselves are understood not simply as carri…
Images of Muhammad
Images of Muhammad: Narratives of the Prophet in Islam across the Centuries. By Tarif Khalidi. New York: Doubleday, 2009. Pp. ix + 342. $27
Muslim Midwives
Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East. By Abner Giladi. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 195. $95
Wives and Work
It is widely held today that classical Islamic law denies that wives have any obligation to do housework. Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on wives’ domestic labor that recasts the historical relationship between Islamic law and ethics.
The Multiplicity of the Pre-Modern Islamic Tradition
Collective Liability in Islam
Collective Liability in Islam: The ʿĀqila and Blood-Money Payments. By Nurit Tsafrir. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xviii + 167. $99.99
Is Marriage Really (Like) a Sale? Reflections of Muslim Jurists of the Fifth–Sixth Century AH / Eleventh–Twelfth Century CE
Since the publication of Kecia Ali’s Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (2010) it has been a commonplace in the field that the pre-modern Islamic law of marriage and divorce was fundamentally shaped by an analogy between marriage and sale. However, that study focuses rigorously on sources from the formative period of Islamic law. This paper extends its inquiry to a selection of scholars from the eleventh and twelfth century CE , showing that by …
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