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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
This is not as easy as it may seem, this blogging for one hundred days.
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Religion Dispatches
I did not have to fight. I did not have to struggle for justice. And even more: I did not have to explain: almost paradise.
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Religion Dispatches
A Qur’anic passage on sex, adultery, and “hidden adornment” raises a lot of questions, with answers hard to find.
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