Zainab Alwani

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Zainab Alwani is Founding Director and Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Howard University School of Divinity.[1]

Biography[]

Zainab Alwani was born in Iraq in 1962.[2] She is the daughter of Taha Jabir Alalwani.[3] She received her PhD from the International Islamic University in Malaysia. She specializes in Islamic jurisprudence, Quranic studies, and women and the family in Islam.[1] Alwani is also the first female jurist to sit on the board of the Fiqh Council of North America.[4]

Alwani is an activist for the rights of Muslim women and children.[2] Alwani's work deals extensively with gender and Islam.[5] She is active in continuing her father's thought and approach to minority fiqh.[6]

Publications[]

Books[]

  • Alusra fi Maqasid al sharia: Qira’ fi Qadaya al zawaj waltalaq fi Amrika (The Objectives of Sharia and the family: Critical Reading in Marriage and Divorce in American Muslim Family). Herndon, Virginia: The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), 2013.
  • Muslim Women and Global Challenges: Seeking Change Through a Quranic Textual Approach and the Prophetic Model. Institute of Objective Studies, 2012.

Articles[]

  • With Aisha in Mind Reading Surat al-Nur through the Qur’an’s structural unity in Muslim Women and Gender Justice: Concepts, Sources, and Histories edited by Dina El Omari, Juliane Hammer, and Mouhanad Khorchide. Routledge, 2020.
  • Kafāla: The Qurʾanic-Prophetic Model of Orphan Care in Journal of Islamic Faith & Practice. 2020.
  • Transformational Teaching: Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as a Teacher and Murabbī in Journal of Islamic Faith and Practice, 2019.
  • Al-wahda al-binaʾiyya li-l-Qurʾan: A Methodology for Understanding the Qurʾan in the Modern Day in The Journal of Islamic Faith and Practice, 2018.
  • Muslim Women as Religious Scholars: A Historical Survey in Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians edited by Ednan Aslan, Marcia Hermansen, and Elif Medeni. Peter Lang (Peter-Lang-Verlagsgruppe), 2013.
  • The Qur'anic Model for Harmony in Family Relations in Change From Within: Diverse Perspectives on Domestic Violence in Muslim Community edited by Maha Alkhateeb and Salma Elkadi Abugideirii. Peaceful Families, 2007.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "People Profile |". profiles.howard.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  2. ^ a b Callahan, Sharon Henderson (2013-06-20). Religious Leadership. SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4129-9908-3.
  3. ^ Alwani, Zainab (2020). "From Baghdad to Leesburg". In Jones, Richard J. (ed.). From Baghdad to Leesburg: A Leader of al-Ta'āruf. Fine Differences. The Al-Alwani Muslim-Christian Lectures 2010-2017. International Institute of Islamic Thought. pp. 1–9. ISBN 978-1-56564-955-2. JSTOR j.ctv19prr4t.5. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  4. ^ "Dr. Zainab Alwani | WISE Muslim Women Zainab Alwani". WISE Muslim Women. 2019-12-21. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  5. ^ Wooward, Mark; Lukens-Bull, Ronald (2018). "Muslim Women: Contemporary Debates". Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives. Springer.
  6. ^ Albrecht, Sarah (2018-04-24). Dār al-Islām Revisited: Territoriality in Contemporary Islamic Legal Discourse on Muslims in the West. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-36457-8.
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