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Amina Wadud

Amina Wadud is an internationally known scholar on Islam and gender. She has lived in five different countries and traveled to more than 40 countries as a consultant on Islam, Human Rights, and Women. Dr. Wadud is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA and visiting scholar at Starr King School for Ministry in Berkeley, California. She is the author of Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective, (Oxford, 1999) and, most recently, of Inside the Gender Jihad: Reform in Islam (OneWorld, 2006).

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Religion Dispatches
It is not whether we agree, but whether I follow through with what I say I am all about.
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Religion Dispatches
Some things really are based upon experience. No matter how much we might say, unless one has had the experience, our words sound awfully empty.
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Religion Dispatches
“Whoever has done an atom’s weight of good, shall see it; and whoever has done an atom’s weight of sin, shall see it.”
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