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Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity
Leila Ahmed
1940
Massachusetts
USA
Harvard University
Harvard Divinity School
45 Francis Avenue
02138
MA
Cambridge
USA
+1-617-496-8508
leila_ahmed@harvard.edu
PhD, Cambridge University.
MA, Cambridge University.
BA, Cambridge University.
Arabic
English
Islam in America
Islam in the East
Pluralism in Islam
Women and Islam
Women in the Middle East
Women and Religions
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, The Divinity School, Harvard University, 2004 - Present.
Professor of Women's and Islamic Studies, The Divinity School, Harvard University, 1999-2003.
Professor of Women's Studies and Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts.
Director of Women's Studies, University of Massachusetts, 1992-1995.
Director of Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts, 1991-1992.
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman's Journey. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999.
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Edward W. Lane: A Study of His Life and Works and of British Ideas of the Middle East in the Nineteenth century. London: Longman, 1978.
First professor of women's studies in religion at Harvard University.
