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Leila Ahmed ( ; born 29 May 1940) is an Egyptian-American scholar of Islam .1 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. 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. In 2013, Ahmed, who had previously opposed the veil, received the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her analysis of the veiling of Muslim women in the United States, in which she describes how some women wore the veil as a symbol of activism for justice and social change. As such, she no longer believes that the resurgence of the veil was solely driven by patriarchy, a view she held when she was younger, as she noted how many women in the United States wore it as a symbol of their Islamic identity, social justice, and to raise other women's awareness of society's sexist messages about women's bodies and dress. However, she believes that the veil has no universal meaning and is still driven by forces of patriarchy in other places around the world. Profile of Leila Ahmed Mehran Kamrava, ed.2 The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity : a Reader . Islam and the Veil: Theoretical and Regional Contexts . "Veil of Ignorance" . 25 April 2011.3
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Leila Ahmed (b. 1940; ) is an Egyptian American professor of Women's Studies and Religion at the Harvard Divinity School . Prior to coming to Harvard, she was professor of Women’s Studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States to teach and write.
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Leila Ahmed (born 1940; ) is an Egyptian American writer on Islam and Islamic feminism as well as being the first women's studies professor at Harvard Divinity School .Ahmed was the recipient of the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her analysis of the 'veiling' of Muslim women in the United States.
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Leila Ahmed ( ; born 1940) is an Egyptian-American scholar of Islam .In 1992 she published her book Women and Gender in Islam , which is regarded as a seminal historical analysis of the position of women in Arab Muslim societies.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. In 2013, Ahmed received the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her analysis of the "veiling" of Muslim women in the United States. The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity : a Reader .Islam and the Veil: Theoretical and Regional Contexts .
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Egyptian-American writer and professor Leila Ahmed ( Arabic : لیلى أحمد ; born 29 May 1940) is an Egyptian-American scholar of women's studies and religion. 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. 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. Ahmed was professor of women's studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Mehran Kamrava, ed. The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity : a Reader . Islam and the Veil: Theoretical and Regional Contexts .
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egyptian-american scholar of women's studies and religion
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