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Leila Ahmed
ليلى أحمد
Leila Ahmed in 2013
Born (1940-05-29) 29 May 1940 (age 83)
Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
EducationUniversity of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Occupations
  • Professor
  • scholar
AwardsGrawemeyer Award in Religion for A Quiet Revolution

Leila Ahmed (Arabic: لیلى أحمد; born 29 May 1940)[1] is an Egyptian-American scholar of Islam. 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.[2][3] She became the first professor of women's studies in religion at Harvard Divinity School in 1999, and has held the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity chair since 2003. She was later awarded the Victor S. Thomas Research Professor of Divinity in 2020.[4]

  1. ^ Profile of Leila Ahmed
  2. ^ Mehran Kamrava, ed. (2006). The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity : a Reader. University of California Press. p. 177.
  3. ^ Theodoore Gabriel; Rabiha Hannan, eds. (2011). Islam and the Veil: Theoretical and Regional Contexts. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 83.
  4. ^ "Leila Ahmed". hds.harvard.edu.

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