Approaching Islam queerly

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Notes on contributors

Nina Hoel is Associate Professor in Religion and Society at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway. Her work uses feminist theory and methodology in the study of lived religion. In particular, Hoel has researched the field of Islam, gender and sexuality, using anthropological approaches as her main method. Having studied and worked for more than a decade in South Africa, she has published extensively in a variety of journals on the topic of Islam, gender and sexuality in South Africa.

Robyn Henderson-Espinoza is Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethics at the Pacific School of Religion, USA. Their work exists in the in-between spaces of ontology, epistemology, and ethics, working to establish a speculatively queer material realism to influence new contours of a materialist liberation theology and ethics. Henderson-Espinoza uses the thought and theory of Gloria Anzaldúa, queer theories, the New Materialism movement, along with queer epistemologies to consider a queer materialist philosophy.

Notes

1 See, for example, Kugle, Homosexuality in Islam.

2 See, for example, Karim, “Living Sexualities”; Kugle, Living Out Islam; Siraj, “Isolated, Invisible, and in the Closet.”

3 See, for example, Babayan and Najmabadi, Islamicate Sexualities.

4 See, for example, Hendricks, Hijab.

5 See, for example, A Jihad for Love; Al-Nisa; Be Like Others.

6 Puar, Terrorist Assemblages.

7 See Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex”; “Mapping the Margins”; and “Postscript.”