Marion Katz

Marion Holmes Katz is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.  Her research revolves around issues of Islamic law, gender, and ritual. Her publications include Body of Text: The Emergence of the Sunni Law of Ritual Purity (SUNY Press, 2002), The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad: Devotional Piety in Sunni Islam (Routledge, 2007), Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice (Cambridge, 2013), and Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice (Columbia University Press, 2014).  Her current book, Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics before Modernity, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.