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Amina Wadud, PhD
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies |
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, where she also took classes
at Cairo University and Al-Azhar University.
Her first book: Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's
Perspective became a world-wide phenomenon. By matching her scholarship with
the most recent advances in Modern Islamic studies and movements, Dr. Wadud's
approach is both interactive and active. Consequently, she has been an
invited speaker, teacher and consultant within the United States, including
Hawaii, as well as in Jordan, South and Southern Africa, Nigeria, Kenya,
Pakistan, Indonesia, Canada, Norway, Netherlands, Sarajevo, and Malaysia
(see photo gallery).
(Photo gallery to be posted soon.) |
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