Dr Mehrdad Alipour is a Lecturer and VENI Researcher (leading the project Beyond Binaries) in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His work primarily examines the transformation of Islamic body politics concerning gender, sex, and sexuality across the premodern and modern eras. His forthcoming monograph, Islamic Body Politics: Non-Binary Intersex in Shiʿi Legal Tradition, 1300–1919, and his co-edited volume, Beyond Binaries: Intersex in Premodern Muslim Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses, stem from his project, Beyond Binaries: Intersex in Islamic Legal Tradition. His book, Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-Hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shiʿi Discourse (Brill, 2024), represents the first academic exploration of the discursive spaces for debating homosexuality within the Shiʿi legal context. His recent publications include “Navigating Body Politics in Shiʿi Legal Tradition: Examining Sayyid Kāẓim al-Yazdī’s Account of Non-Binary Intersex,” Journal of Islamic Law and Society 2025; and “The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness: Legal-Hermeneutical Examinations of Four Islamic Fatwās,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 18(3), 2022.