Fatima Seedat is a Lecturer and the Coordinator of the Gender, Religion and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Programme, housed within the Gender and Religion Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Prior to this she held a Chevening Fellowship at the Human Rights Law Center at University of Nottingham, an Equity Scholarship for Doctoral Studies Abroad at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University and an Innovation Fund Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her doctoral dissertation investigates the discursive construction of the female legal subject through a study of “legal capacity” (al-ahliyya) in Islamic law. Using interdisciplinary methods from critical legal studies, feminist history of philosophy, feminist studies of the body and Islamic jurisprudence, she proposes a decolonial approach to the study of sex difference in Islamic law. Concerned with processes of legal and social change, her long term project is to explore the convergence of historical and traditional constructions of sex difference, with contemporary gender norms and new legal practices. She has also published on the politics of the convergence of Islam and feminism, and problematized the easy conflation of these two intellectual paradigms. Outside of academia, she has worked for the Commission on Gender Equality, consulted for international human rights organisations and co-founded Shura Yabafazi, a South African NGO that focuses on sex difference in Muslim family law and local MPL debates.