women and gender in islam by leila ahmed

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A professorship in Women's Studies and Religion at the Harvard Divinity School followed in 1999, where she currently teaches. She earned her undergraduate and doctorate degrees from University of Cambridge during the 1960s before moving to the United States to teach and write, where she was appointed to professorship in Women's Studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the position of director in said programs in 1981. Her father, a civil engineer, was a vocal opponent of Gamal Abdel Nasser's construction of the Aswan High Dam on ecological principles. The Ahmed family became politically ostracized following the Free Officers Movement in 1952.

Biographyīorn in the Heliopolis district of Cairo to a middle-class Egyptian father and an upper class Turkish mother in 1940, Ahmed's childhood was shaped both by Muslim Egyptian values and the liberal orientation of Egypt's aristocracy under the ancien régime. As such, she now supports Muslim women who advocate for the veil as a symbol of progressivism and feminism, although Ahmed herself does not practice veiling. In 2013, Ahmed received the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her analysis of the veiling of Muslim women in the United States, in which she described her rejection of her own previous critiques of the veil as sexist in favor of the view that the veil, when voluntarily chosen, is a progressive and feminist act. Thomas Research Professor of Divinity in 2020. Thomas Professor of Divinity chair since 2003.

She became the first professor of women's studies in religion at Harvard Divinity School in 1999, and has held the Victor S. In 1992 she published her book Women and Gender in Islam, which is regarded as a seminal historical analysis of the position of women in Arab Muslim societies. Leila Ahmed ( Arabic: لیلى أحمد born 1940) is an Egyptian-American scholar of Islam. Grawemeyer Award in Religion for A Quiet Revolution

Women and gender in islam by leila ahmed