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Leila Ahmed

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Born: December 31 1939

Leila Ahmed is an Egyptian American professor of Women's Studies and Religion at the Harvard Divinity School. Prior to coming to Harvard, she was professor of Women’s Studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States to teach and write.

In her 1999 memoir A Border Passage, Ahmed describes her multicultural Cairene upbringing and her adult life as an expatriate and an immigrant in the West. She tells of how she was introduced to Islam through her grandmother during her childhood, and she came to distinguish it from "official Islam" as practiced and preached by a largely male religious elite. This realization would later form the basis of her first acclaimed book, Women and Gender in Islam , a seminal work on Islamic history, Muslim feminism, and the historical role of women in Islam.

Leila Ahmed

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 31 1939

Leila Ahmed is an Egyptian American professor of Women's Studies and Religion at the Harvard Divinity School. Prior to coming to Harvard, she was professor of Women’s Studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States to teach and write.

In her 1999 memoir A Border Passage, Ahmed describes her multicultural Cairene upbringing and her adult life as an expatriate and an immigrant in the West. She tells of how she was introduced to Islam through her grandmother during her childhood, and she came to distinguish it from "official Islam" as practiced and preached by a largely male religious elite. This realization would later form the basis of her first acclaimed book, Women and Gender in Islam , a seminal work on Islamic history, Muslim feminism, and the historical role of women in Islam.

Books from Leila Ahmed

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

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A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

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Müslüman Toplumlarda Kadın ve Cinsellik

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Edward W. Lane: A Study Of His Life And Works And Of British Ideas Of The Middle East In The Nineteenth Century

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A Border Passage (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)

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المرأة والجنوسة فى الإسلام : الجذور التاريخية لقضية جدلية حديثة

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A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman's Journey

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