CMES Colloquium: (A)mending the Body: The ethics of cosmetic alterations in early Islamic discourse

Kathryn Kueny is Professor of Theology at Fordham University, where she is Director of the Middle East Studies and Religious Studies programs. She received her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, and is the author of two books, The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam, and Conceiving Identities: Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice, both published by SUNY Press. Professor Kueny is currently working on a new project, titled Ecologies of Health and Disease in Medieval Muslim Medicine, Law, Belief, and Practice. This work explores how views about God, the body, moral conduct, and the natural world marked individuals as healthy or ill.