Mehrdad Alipour

Mehrdad Alipour (PhD) is a scholar of Islamic legal and cultural history, focusing on the transformation of body politics, gender, and sexuality in Islamic contexts across the premodern and modern eras. He received the VENI Talent Grant (2022–2025) for the project Beyond Binaries: Intersex Identity in Islamic Legal Tradition (https://beyondbinaries.nl). He is the author of Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam (Brill, 2024) and “Navigating Body Politics in Shiʿi Legal Tradition” (Islamic Law and Society, 2025).

Books by the Author

Cover of 'Intersex and the (Non)Binary Body in Classical Muslim Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses'

Intersex and the (Non)Binary Body in Classical Muslim Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses

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