Associate Professor of Islamic Studies

PhD, U of Michigan

Email - awadud@vcu.edu
Phone - 804.827.3406
Fax - 804.828.0127

Office - Lafayette Hall, Rm. 210
            312 N. Shafer St.
            Richmond, VA 23220

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Dr. Wadud joined the Religious Studies Program at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992, directly from the International Islamic University in Malaysia. She made the adjustment to teaching general religious studies classes with one or two opportunities to teach directly in her own area of specialty: Islamic Studies. Dr. Wadud's particular sub-disciplines are Gender and Qur'anic Studies. Since then more opportunities to develop Islamic Studies courses have presented themselves, and within the School of World Studies, she was asked to create an Islamic Studies minor due to start in the Fall 2005. Her involvement with Islamic studies started with her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan which included an opportunity for intensive advanced Arabic studies component at American University in Cairo... 

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