Wikipedia's first sentence called it “academic educated in pakistan and the united states”. Today it says “pakistani-american writer and academic”.
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Asma Barlas is an academic educated in Pakistan and the United States. Both her parents were intellectuals and taught her to be an independent woman, capable of doing whatever she wanted. She left Pakistan in 1983, seeking political asylum in the USA.She is the Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity of the department of politics at Ithaca College , New York.1 Her specialties include comparative and international politics, Islam and Qur'anic hermeneutics , and women and gender. Barlas was named to the prestigious Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands for "her prominent contributions to discussions about women and Islam ".2
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Asma Barlas is an academic educated in Pakistan and the United States . She is the Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity of the department of politics at Ithaca College , New York . Her specialties include comparative and international politics, Islam and Qur'anic hermeneutics , and women and gender. Barlas was named to the prestigious Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands for "her prominent contributions to discussions about women and Islam ". Her views and interpretations of Islam have been called " Islamic feminism ," but she herself rejects this term, unless it is defined as "a discourse of gender equality and social justice that derives its understanding and mandate from the Qur’an and seeks the practice of rights and justice for all human beings in the totality of their existence across the public-private continuum." Homepage of Asma Barlas Ithaca College Politics Professor Named to Spinoza Chair at University of Amsterdam
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Pakistani-American writer and academic Asma Barlas (born 1950) is a Pakistani-American writer and academic. Her specialties include comparative and international politics, Islam and Qur'anic hermeneutics , and women's studies.
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Pakistani-American writer and academic Asma Barlas (born 10 March 1950) is a Pakistani-American writer and academic. Her specialties include comparative and international politics, Islam and Qur'anic hermeneutics , and women's studies.
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academic educated in pakistan and the united states
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pakistani-american writer and academic
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