An Interview about “Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam”

Please check out this link for an interview conducted by New Books in Islamic Studies’ Shehnaz Haqqani with me about my new book! Brief description: “Contrary to assumptions about Islam’s patrilineal nature, there is in fact precedent in pre-modern Islamic history of Muslims’ recognition of bilateral descent, or descent from both the mother and the father – though, of course, bilateral descent was by no means universally acknowledged. Learn more as Alyssa Gabbay discusses Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima.”