The mukhannath in pre-modern Islamic Law

Serena Tolino, Zurich University This blogpost is one of two going back to the paper at the Zwischen conference in September 2015. See here for an abstract, and here for the other blogpost. In Islamic Law categorizing each individual as a man or a woman was very important. Indeed, there are strong differences between males and females for what regards both duties and rights. For example, in general circumstances women inherit half the share of inheritance available to men; blood money of a w..