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Azizah Y. al-Hibri

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Azizah Y. al-Hibri is a professor at the T. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond . She is a former professor of Philosophy , founding editor of Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy , and founder and president of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. A Fulbright scholar , she has written extensively on issues of Islam and democracy, Muslim women’s rights, and human rights in Islam. She guest-edited a special volume on Islam for the Journal of Law and Religion . Her recent articles include “An Islamic Perspective on Domestic Violence” ( Fordham International Law Journal , December 2003) and “Redefining Muslim Women’s Roles in the Next Century” (Democracy and the Rule of Law, Congressional Quarterly , 2001). She was an advisor to the award-winning, PBS-broadcast documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (2002), produced by Unity Productions Foundation . She is currently completing a book on the Islamic marriage contract in American courts. Al-Hibri is a member of the advisory board of various organizations, including the PEW Forum on Religion in Public Life, the Pluralism Project Harvard University , and Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly (PBS). She is also a member of the Constitution Project 's Liberty and Security Committee. In June 2011, al-Hibri was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom . She also wrote the third chapter of Transforming the Faiths of our Fathers: Women who Changed American Religion (2004), edited by Ann Braude. Al-Hibri is the grandchild of Sheik Toufik El Hibri who established the first scout movement in the Arab world.1

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