Hadas Hirsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 183355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hadas Hirsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hadas |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirsch |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oranim Academic College of Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5435-0258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cross-Dressing and Gender Roles in Early Islam
This article describes the personal appearance of ghulāmiyyāt slave women within the broader context of cross-dressing in medieval Islam. The Abbasid caliph al-ʿAmin’s (d. 813) mother established the phenomenon of the ghulāmiyyāt which saw slave women adopt the appearance of young boys in the hope of enticing the heirless caliph away from his homosexual proclivities. These slave women practiced two interconnected identities: that of women in term…
The Qur’ānic Ghilmān
English abstract: The article argues that there is a discursive space within juridical texts and Qur’ānic commentaries that justifies the postulation of a third gender or gender ambiguity. It examines the legal treatment of alternative gender identities by analyzing the personal appearance of the ghilmān. Descriptions of the ghilmān focus on glorifying their personal appearance but rarely discuss the ghilmān’s characteristics. They support the as…
The sociocultural evolution of jurisprudence
The primary objective of this article is to demonstrate that medieval Muslim jurisprudence exemplifies sociocultural evolution, marked by flexibility and not discontinuities. The article’s case study focuses on the purification of polluted clothing for prayer, examining the everyday domestic and public scenarios that result in clothing contamination, and the jurists’ resourceful methods for rendering it ritually pure through accessible, inexpensi…
The construction of other genders by means of personal appearance in medieval Islam
This article focuses on two variations from the Muslim patriarchal binary system of females and males: mukhannathūn (those who display female behaviour and appearance while having male sex organs) and khuntha (those with a lack of or confused sex organs). These two categories were tolerated and represent an extension of the normative expected sex-gender spectrum of Islam. Personal appearance, in its broad meaning, is used as a tool for analysing …
The Prophet Muḥammad’s Ring
The goal of this article is to illuminate the medieval legal discussion of the Prophet Muḥammad’s ring as an object of multiple meanings: personal adornment and fashion on one hand and religious, ruling status symbol on the other hand. The article will focus on the descriptions of Muḥammad’s ring in two complementary aspects; materially, meaning the ring itself, and symbolically, meaning the message. The Prophet Muḥammad’s signet is an example of…
Circulation of fashions
The article delves into the place and role of foreign influences on Muslim clothing, and the complicated and contradictory ways in which these influences found their way into the Muslim world through processes of adoption, rejection and adjustment. Clothing played a role in interacting with other regions and creating cross-cultural circulation and trans-medial and trans-material dynamics. Mapping the geographical movement of clothing enables us t…
Clothing and Colours in Early Islam
The article discusses the colour subtext in the founding texts of Islam, namely, the Koran and jurisprudence. These texts were the raw material to create a scale of colours appropriate and inappropriate for clothing, and to analyse the role of colours in differentiating among subjected groups. Colours were positioned on a scale as preferred, permitted or prohibited for clothing based on their symbolic interpretations and perceptions of adornment …
Temporary and permanent body modifications in medieval Islam
The fact that Muslim life depends on jurisprudence accords the legal discussion a monopoly over rulings regarding body adornments and body modifications. Jurisprudence serves as a mechanism for creating norms, but at the same time these norms reflect the tension between contradictory tendencies. The jurists’ creative solution, namely, a division of body adornments and modifications into categories of permitted and prohibited, each according to th…
Hair
This study examines Muslim legal discussion of head and body hair by uncovering their symbolic meanings as found in written descriptions, as these reflect both reality and expected norms. The use of symbols and symbolizing processes, together with a wider conception of the way Muslims perceive themselves, their appearance and the human interactions they have in daily life and during ceremonies, confirms the multiplicity of meanings which exist in…
Outward Appearance of Children in Medieval Muslim Legal Texts
This article focuses on some aspects of boys' and girls' outward appearance in pre-modern Muslim societies according to medieval legal sources. These compendiums are analysed as the product of a continuing, two-way dialogue between law and reality, and as reflecting the desired norms side by side with existing customs. They were not created in a vacuum but are anchored in a local, socio-economic, cultural and political reality. Muslim jurists fol…
Clothing and Colours in Early Islam
The article discusses the colour subtext in the founding texts of Islam, namely, the Koran and jurisprudence. These texts were the raw material to create a scale of colours appropriate and inappropriate for clothing, and to analyse the role of colours in differentiating among subjected groups. Colours were positioned on a scale as preferred, permitted or prohibited for clothing based on their symbolic interpretations and perceptions of adornment …
Outward Appearance of Children in Medieval Muslim Legal Texts
This article focuses on some aspects of boys' and girls' outward appearance in pre-modern Muslim societies according to medieval legal sources. These compendiums are analysed as the product of a continuing, two-way dialogue between law and reality, and as reflecting the desired norms side by side with existing customs. They were not created in a vacuum but are anchored in a local, socio-economic, cultural and political reality. Muslim jurists fol…
Hair
This study examines Muslim legal discussion of head and body hair by uncovering their symbolic meanings as found in written descriptions, as these reflect both reality and expected norms. The use of symbols and symbolizing processes, together with a wider conception of the way Muslims perceive themselves, their appearance and the human interactions they have in daily life and during ceremonies, confirms the multiplicity of meanings which exist in…
Clothing and Colours in Early Islam
The article discusses the colour subtext in the founding texts of Islam, namely, the Koran and jurisprudence. These texts were the raw material to create a scale of colours appropriate and inappropriate for clothing, and to analyse the role of colours in differentiating among subjected groups. Colours were positioned on a scale as preferred, permitted or prohibited for clothing based on their symbolic interpretations and perceptions of adornment …
Temporary and permanent body modifications in medieval Islam
The fact that Muslim life depends on jurisprudence accords the legal discussion a monopoly over rulings regarding body adornments and body modifications. Jurisprudence serves as a mechanism for creating norms, but at the same time these norms reflect the tension between contradictory tendencies. The jurists’ creative solution, namely, a division of body adornments and modifications into categories of permitted and prohibited, each according to th…
The Prophet Muḥammad’s Ring
The goal of this article is to illuminate the medieval legal discussion of the Prophet Muḥammad’s ring as an object of multiple meanings: personal adornment and fashion on one hand and religious, ruling status symbol on the other hand. The article will focus on the descriptions of Muḥammad’s ring in two complementary aspects; materially, meaning the ring itself, and symbolically, meaning the message. The Prophet Muḥammad’s signet is an example of…
Circulation of fashions
The article delves into the place and role of foreign influences on Muslim clothing, and the complicated and contradictory ways in which these influences found their way into the Muslim world through processes of adoption, rejection and adjustment. Clothing played a role in interacting with other regions and creating cross-cultural circulation and trans-medial and trans-material dynamics. Mapping the geographical movement of clothing enables us t…
The construction of other genders by means of personal appearance in medieval Islam
This article focuses on two variations from the Muslim patriarchal binary system of females and males: mukhannathūn (those who display female behaviour and appearance while having male sex organs) and khuntha (those with a lack of or confused sex organs). These two categories were tolerated and represent an extension of the normative expected sex-gender spectrum of Islam. Personal appearance, in its broad meaning, is used as a tool for analysing …
The Qur’ānic Ghilmān
English abstract: The article argues that there is a discursive space within juridical texts and Qur’ānic commentaries that justifies the postulation of a third gender or gender ambiguity. It examines the legal treatment of alternative gender identities by analyzing the personal appearance of the ghilmān. Descriptions of the ghilmān focus on glorifying their personal appearance but rarely discuss the ghilmān’s characteristics. They support the as…
The sociocultural evolution of jurisprudence
The primary objective of this article is to demonstrate that medieval Muslim jurisprudence exemplifies sociocultural evolution, marked by flexibility and not discontinuities. The article’s case study focuses on the purification of polluted clothing for prayer, examining the everyday domestic and public scenarios that result in clothing contamination, and the jurists’ resourceful methods for rendering it ritually pure through accessible, inexpensi…
Cross-Dressing and Gender Roles in Early Islam
This article describes the personal appearance of ghulāmiyyāt slave women within the broader context of cross-dressing in medieval Islam. The Abbasid caliph al-ʿAmin’s (d. 813) mother established the phenomenon of the ghulāmiyyāt which saw slave women adopt the appearance of young boys in the hope of enticing the heirless caliph away from his homosexual proclivities. These slave women practiced two interconnected identities: that of women in term…
Islamic Studies and History (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Islam (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works)