Fatima Seedat (Islamic scholar)

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. She is known for her scholarly work on gender and Islamic law, and Islam and feminism.
Career
Seedat researches gender and Islamic law, Islam and feminism, and Muslim masculinity.
Sadat is one of three female Muslim Marriage Officers in South Africa.
Works
* The Women's Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World (co-editor, Yale University Press, 2022)
* "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
* [https://tif.ssrc.org/2018/09/13/a-womens-march-without-god-the-father/ 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)
 
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