Leila Ahmed - Wikipedia
Leila Ahmed (Arabic: لیلى أحمد; born 29 May 1940) [1] is an Egyptian-American scholar of women's studies and religion. [2] In 1992 she published her book Women and Gender in Islam, which is regarded as a pioneering historical analysis of the position of women in Arab Muslim societies.
Leila Ahmed | Harvard Divinity School (HDS)
Leila Ahmed came to the Divinity School in 1999 as the first professor of women's studies in religion and was appointed to the Victor S. Thomas chair in 2003. She became the Victor S. Thomas Research Professor of Divinity in 2020.
Leila Ahmed becomes first Professor of Women's Studies in Religion
Professor Ahmed joined the Harvard Faculty of Divinity in 1999 as the first Professor of Women's Studies in Religion, thereby becoming a pioneer not only in Islamic studies but also in women’s and gender studies.
Leila Ahmed | Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Leila Ahmed came to the Divinity School in 1999 as the first professor of women's studies in religion and was appointed to the Victor S. Thomas chair in 2003. Prior to her appointment at HDS, she was professor of women's studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Leila Ahmed | Lowell House - Harvard University
I am Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, at HDS. I focus on women in religion and on issues of religion, gender and identity in both my teaching and research. My particular research interest is in relation to women and Islam: originally in relation specifically to the Middle East and now also in relation to Islam in America.
Leila Ahmed – Accessing Muslim Lives
Leila Ahmed (b. 1940) is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. She has held this post since 2003, but, previously, she was the Harvard Divinity School’s first professor of women’s studies in religion (1999-2003) and a professor of women’s studies and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts ...
Leila Ahmed | WISE Muslim Women Leila Ahmed
Leila Ahmed, BA, MA, PhD, University of Cambridge, came to the Divinity School at Harvard University in 1999 as the first professor of women's studies in religion and was appointed to the Victor S. Thomas chair in 2003.
Leila Ahmed - Islam & feminism
Leila Ahmed was the first professor of Women's Studies in Religion at Harvard University. Her book ‘Women and Gender in Islam’ which was published in 1992 challenged many assumptions about women in the history of Islam and has informed decades of discussions around the complex detail of issues such as the Islamic headscarf.
Leila Ahmed - Who is she
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.
Leila Ahmed | Women's Learning Partnership
Leila Ahmed (Egypt) is the first Professor of Women's Studies in Religion at Harvard Divinity School. Prior to joining Harvard Divinity School, Ahmed was Professor of Women's Studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where she also served as director of the Women's Studies Program (1992-5) and the Near ...