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Marion Holmes Katz
New York University
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies
New York University 50 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
United States
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Gender/Women's Studies
Islamic Law
Islamic Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Islamic World
Mashreq
Yemen
Specialties
Gender Stds
Islamic Law
Islamic Ritual
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (intermediate)
German (advanced)
Persian (intermediate)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 1997 | NELC | U of Chicago
BA | 1989 | NE Lang & Civ | Yale U
Abstracts
What Becomes a Legal Problem? Non-Scholarly Actors and the Pre-History of the Fatwa Re-imagining Gender Roles in the Islamic Marriage Contract