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Indira Falk Gesink
Baldwin Wallace University
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 440-826-2280
Fax: 440-826-3264
Department of History
Baldwin Wallace University 275 Eastland Road
Berea OH 44017
United States
ABOUT
Ph.D. in History, Washington University in St. Louis, 2000. Professor of History, Baldwin Wallace University. Research specialties: 19th-century world, Egypt, shari'a, educational reform, al-Azhar, gender, intersexuality in Islamic societies Author: Islamic Reform and Conservatism (I.B. Tauris, 2009, 2014). Barefoot Millionaire (BWU, 2013, 2016).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Colonialism
Islamic Law
Gender/Women's Studies
All Time Periods
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Historiography
Queer/LGBT Studies
History Of Religion
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Islamic World
Ottoman Empire
Palestine
Specialties
Conservativism
Islamic Reform
Gender/LGBT
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2000 | Hist | Washington U
Abstracts
The 'Complex Sex': Hermaphrodites in Islamic Legal Discourse "He makes them male and female": Intersexuality in Tafsir and Hadith Literature Intersex and gender conforming surgery: a history of "Islamic" options