Jeffrey A Redding
Biographic Data
| ID | 219288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey A Redding |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey A |
| FAMILY NAME | Redding |
| SIGNATURE | REDDING J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia
Our conversations toward “Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia” began in the dismaying aftermath of the 2023 Pakistani Federal Shariat Court judgment in Hammad Hussain v. Federation of Pakistan. This judgment (now in abeyance while being appealed) deemed major portions of Pakistan's 2018 Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act “unIslamic” and unenforceable. However, this judgment was written not only in the register of Islamic juri…
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Islamic challenges to Pakistan’s transgender rights law
Pakistan broke ground in 2018 with its legislation of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act. This legislation was cutting-edge within South Asia and globally with the Act's declaration that gender identity inheres in the individual. The Act broadly defines a 'transgender person' to include intersex persons, khwaja siras (an Islamicate gender), and also 'any person whose gender identity or gender expression differs from the social nor…
Les droits des personnes transgenres au Pakistan (2009-2019)
On a pu assister dans la dernière décennie à une série de développements notables concernant les droits transgenres au Pakistan. On peut retracer leur origine à 2009, lorsqu’un avocat privé a déposé une plainte à la Cour suprême du Pakistan. Depuis cette plainte se sont ensuivies plusieurs années d’audiences et d’ordonnances de la Cour suprême du Pakistan à propos des droits et du bien-être des transgenres et plusieurs départements des gouverneme…
Surveillance, Censure and Support: Gender Counting in South Asia
Gender counting has been a longstanding concern of South Asian politics. For the past several years, gender counting has taken on central importance in South Asia in a new register. In both Pakistan and India, as part of a larger discussion on transgender rights and welfare, the state has engaged in various efforts to count the number of transgender persons living within its borders. In this recent (trans)gender counting, we see not only progress…
A Secular Failure: Sectarianism and Communalism in Shayara Bano v. Union of India
Proponents of secularism often describe their support for this form of governance in terms of the protections it provides against the excesses, dangers, and coercions of religious governance. In reality, however, the differences between secular and religious systems of governance are often overstated, with secularism's promises being in conversation with secularism's failures. This article explores one recent and important instance of such secula…
A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for “sharia bans” in the courts, in western Europe legal limitations have been imposed on mosques and the wearing of headscarves, and in the Arab Middle East conflicts between s…
Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Illegitimacy and Indigeneity: Secular Courts and Muslim Dar ul Qazas
Shamim Ara and the Divorce Politics of a Secular and Modern India
The Case of Ayesha, Muslim 'Courts', and the Rule of Law: Some ethnographic lessons for legal theory
This paper aims to challenge the disparagement of non-state Islamic systems of law that has established firm roots in contemporary rule of law ideology and practice around the world, from India to Ontario. In this respect, rule of law ideology has tended to ignore actual mechanics and procedures of law, not only in legal venues outside the state's direct control, but also in the state's courts themselves. With respect to non-state legal venues-an…
Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat‐e‐Islami by Irfan Ahmad
American AnthropologistVolume 113, Issue 1 p. 162-163 BOOK REVIEWSSingle Book Reviews Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami by Irfan Ahmad Jeffrey A. Redding, Jeffrey A. Redding Saint Louis University School of LawSearch for more papers by this author Jeffrey A. Redding, Jeffrey A. Redding Saint Louis University School of LawSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 February 2011 https://doi.org/10…
The Case of Ayesha, Muslim 'Courts', and the Rule of Law: Some ethnographic lessons for legal theory
This paper aims to challenge the disparagement of non-state Islamic systems of law that has established firm roots in contemporary rule of law ideology and practice around the world, from India to Ontario. In this respect, rule of law ideology has tended to ignore actual mechanics and procedures of law, not only in legal venues outside the state's direct control, but also in the state's courts themselves. With respect to non-state legal venues-an…
A Secular Failure: Sectarianism and Communalism in Shayara Bano v. Union of India
Proponents of secularism often describe their support for this form of governance in terms of the protections it provides against the excesses, dangers, and coercions of religious governance. In reality, however, the differences between secular and religious systems of governance are often overstated, with secularism's promises being in conversation with secularism's failures. This article explores one recent and important instance of such secula…
Surveillance, Censure and Support: Gender Counting in South Asia
Gender counting has been a longstanding concern of South Asian politics. For the past several years, gender counting has taken on central importance in South Asia in a new register. In both Pakistan and India, as part of a larger discussion on transgender rights and welfare, the state has engaged in various efforts to count the number of transgender persons living within its borders. In this recent (trans)gender counting, we see not only progress…
Shamim Ara and the Divorce Politics of a Secular and Modern India
Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat‐e‐Islami by Irfan Ahmad
American AnthropologistVolume 113, Issue 1 p. 162-163 BOOK REVIEWSSingle Book Reviews Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami by Irfan Ahmad Jeffrey A. Redding, Jeffrey A. Redding Saint Louis University School of LawSearch for more papers by this author Jeffrey A. Redding, Jeffrey A. Redding Saint Louis University School of LawSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 February 2011 https://doi.org/10…
The Case of Ayesha, Muslim 'Courts', and the Rule of Law: Some ethnographic lessons for legal theory
This paper aims to challenge the disparagement of non-state Islamic systems of law that has established firm roots in contemporary rule of law ideology and practice around the world, from India to Ontario. In this respect, rule of law ideology has tended to ignore actual mechanics and procedures of law, not only in legal venues outside the state's direct control, but also in the state's courts themselves. With respect to non-state legal venues-an…
Shamim Ara and the Divorce Politics of a Secular and Modern India
A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for “sharia bans” in the courts, in western Europe legal limitations have been imposed on mosques and the wearing of headscarves, and in the Arab Middle East conflicts between s…
Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Illegitimacy and Indigeneity: Secular Courts and Muslim Dar ul Qazas
Les droits des personnes transgenres au Pakistan (2009-2019)
On a pu assister dans la dernière décennie à une série de développements notables concernant les droits transgenres au Pakistan. On peut retracer leur origine à 2009, lorsqu’un avocat privé a déposé une plainte à la Cour suprême du Pakistan. Depuis cette plainte se sont ensuivies plusieurs années d’audiences et d’ordonnances de la Cour suprême du Pakistan à propos des droits et du bien-être des transgenres et plusieurs départements des gouverneme…
Surveillance, Censure and Support: Gender Counting in South Asia
Gender counting has been a longstanding concern of South Asian politics. For the past several years, gender counting has taken on central importance in South Asia in a new register. In both Pakistan and India, as part of a larger discussion on transgender rights and welfare, the state has engaged in various efforts to count the number of transgender persons living within its borders. In this recent (trans)gender counting, we see not only progress…
A Secular Failure: Sectarianism and Communalism in Shayara Bano v. Union of India
Proponents of secularism often describe their support for this form of governance in terms of the protections it provides against the excesses, dangers, and coercions of religious governance. In reality, however, the differences between secular and religious systems of governance are often overstated, with secularism's promises being in conversation with secularism's failures. This article explores one recent and important instance of such secula…
Islamic challenges to Pakistan’s transgender rights law
Pakistan broke ground in 2018 with its legislation of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act. This legislation was cutting-edge within South Asia and globally with the Act's declaration that gender identity inheres in the individual. The Act broadly defines a 'transgender person' to include intersex persons, khwaja siras (an Islamicate gender), and also 'any person whose gender identity or gender expression differs from the social nor…
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia
Our conversations toward “Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia” began in the dismaying aftermath of the 2023 Pakistani Federal Shariat Court judgment in Hammad Hussain v. Federation of Pakistan. This judgment (now in abeyance while being appealed) deemed major portions of Pakistan's 2018 Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act “unIslamic” and unenforceable. However, this judgment was written not only in the register of Islamic juri…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Islam (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)