Fatima Seedat
| Fatima Seedat | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | South African |
| 🏫 Education | McGill University |
| 💼 Occupation | Islamic scholar, women's rights activist |
Fatima Seedat is a South African feminist, Islamic scholar and women's rights activist. She is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Cape Town.[1][2] Sadat is known for her work on gender in Islamic law.[3]
Life[edit]
Seedat researches gender and Islamic law, Islam and feminism, and Muslim masculinity.[1] She completed her PhD at McGill University.[2]
Seedat was the parliamentary liaison for the South African Commission on Gender Equality. Seedat is the founder of Shura Yabafazi, a South African NGO that focuses on women in Muslim family law. Seedat has also worked with Equitas Human Rights Foundation, Women Living Under Muslim Laws, and UN Women Afghanistan.[2][4]
Sadat is one of three female Muslim Marriage Officers in South Africa.[4] She has worked with the South African Muslim Personal Law Network, which works in conjunction with Musawah.[4]
Works[edit]
- "South African Feminists in Search of the Sacred" in Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa (2021, Wits University Press)
- “Gender and the Study of Islamic Law: From Polemic to Ethics” in The Routledge Handbook on Gender and Islam (2020, Routledge)
- "Between Boundaries, towards Decolonial Possibilities in a Feminist Classroom Holding a Space between the Qur'an and the Bible" in Religion and Theology (2020)
- "Gender Asymmetry and Mutual Sexual Relations in Online Legal Interpretation— Beyond the Dissonance through the Fatwas of askimam.org" in Journal for Gender and Religion in Africa (2020)
- "Intersections and Assemblages: South African’s Negotiating Privilege and Marginality through Freedom of Religion and Sexual Difference" in Freedom of Religion at Stake (2019, Church of Sweden Research Series)
- "Secure Between God and Man: Peace, Tranquility and Sexuality through the Pietistic Aspirations of Believing Women" with Mariam Khan in Journal for the Study of Religion
- "Queering the Study of Islam" in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
- A women’s march without God (the Father) in The Immanent Frame (2018)
- Sexual economies of war and sexual technologies of the body: Militarised Muslim masculinity and the Islamist production of concubines for the caliphate in Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity (2017)
- "On Spiritual Subjects: Negotiations in Muslim Female Spirituality" in Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa (2016)
- "Islam, Feminism and Islamic Feminism: Between Inadequacy and Inevitability" in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (2013)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dr Fatima Seedat | African Gender Institute". www.agi.ac.za. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Fatima Seedat | WISE Muslim Women Fatima Seedat". WISE Muslim Women. 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
- ↑ Emon, Anver M.; Ahmed, Rumee (November 2018). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-967901-0. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "People : Legal Experience | African Gender Institute". www.agi.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
External links[edit]
- Fatima Seedat publications indexed by Google Scholar
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