Amina Wadud
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September 25, 1952 Bethesda, Maryland |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, American University in Cairo, Cairo University, Al-Azhar University |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
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Main interests
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Islamic studies, Islamic feminism, theology, philosophy, interfaith dialogue |
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Notable ideas
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Women as imams |
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Amina Wadud (born September 25, 1952) is an American scholar of Islam with a progressive focus on Qur'an exegesis (interpretation of the holy text).
Wadud was born as Mary Teasley to an African-American Family in Bethesda, Maryland. Her father was a Methodist minister. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania, between 1970 and 1975. In 1972 she pronounced the shahadah, that is, accepted Islam. By 1974 she had changed her name officially to Amina Wadud, to reflect her chosen religion. She received her M.A. in Near Eastern Studies and her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Michigan in 1988. During graduate school, she studied in Egypt, including advanced Arabic at the American University in Cairo, Qur'anic studies and tafsir (exegesis or religious interpretation) at Cairo University, and philosophy at Al-Azhar University.
Wadud's research specialities include gender and Qur'anic studies.
From 1989 to 1992 she worked as an assistant professor in Quranic Studies at IIUM. While there, she published her dissertation Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective and co-founded the non-governmental organization Sisters in Islam. The book is still used by the NGO as a basic text for activists and academics, but it is banned in the United Arab Emirates.
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