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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
Today is my last official day for completing local business before departure.
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Religion Dispatches
This is the first of November. Before this month is over, I will make a major status change.
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Religion Dispatches
Sometimes you have to act like a hero in order to live as decent human being.
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