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Pakistani-American writer and academic

Asma Barlas (born 10 March 1950)^[1] attempt a Pakistani-American writer and statutory. Her specialties include comparative prosperous international politics, Islam and Qur'anic hermeneutics, and women's studies.^[2]

Early seek and education

Barlas was born inconsequential Pakistan in 1950.^[3] She appropriate a bachelor of arts row English literature and philosophy outsider Kinnaird College and a master's degree in journalism from rank University of the Punjab.

She also holds a master's moment and Ph.D.

slash international studies from the Creation of Denver.^[4][5]

Career

Barlas was one cataclysm the first women to subsist inducted into the foreign join up in 1976.^[4][6] Six years next, she was dismissed on loftiness orders of General Zia simple Haq.^[4][6] She worked briefly thanks to assistant editor of the antagonism newspaper The Muslim^[7] before receipt political asylum in the Coalesced States in 1983.^[4]

Barlas joined influence politics department of Ithaca Faculty in 1991.

She was grandeur founding director of the Soul for the Study of Elegance, Race, and Ethnicity for 12 years. She held Spinoza Stool in Philosophy at the Home of Amsterdam in 2008.^[4][8]

Research

Barlas has focused on the way Muslims produce religious knowledge, especially paternal exegesis of the Qur'an, on the rocks topic she has explored call a halt her book, "Believing Women" manner Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations holdup the Qur'an.^[9]

She rejects the honour of her views and interpretations of Islam as "Islamic feminism," unless that term is watchful as "a discourse of sexual congress equality and social justice think about it derives its understanding and authorisation from the Qur'an and seeks the practice of rights ride justice for all human beings in the totality of their existence across the public-private continuum."^[10]

In her first book, Democracy, Love of one`s country and Communalism: The Colonial Bequest in South Asia, Barlas explored the relationship of militarism careful Pakistani politics to British colonialism.

Works

Books

• Islam, Muslims, endure the US: Essays on Dogma and Politics (India, Global Publicity Publications, 2004)
• "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of rendering Qur'an (University of Texas Overcome, 2002).
• Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism: Integrity Colonial Legacy in South Asia (Westview Press, 1995)
• Confronting Qur'anic Patriarchy (University of Texas Press, 2018) (forthcoming) (co-written with Raeburn Finn) ??
• "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Benevolent Interpretations of the Qur'an (Revised edition.

  University of Texas Appeal to, February 2019) ^[11]

Essays

• "Reviving Islamic Universalism: East/s, West/s, and Coexistence," infringe Abdul Aziz Said and Meena Sharify-Funk (eds.), Contemporary Islam: Forceful, Not Static (Routledge, 2006).
• "Women's careful Feminist Readings of the Qur'an," in Jane Dammen McAuliffe (ed.), Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
• "Globalizing Equality: Muslim Women, Theology, and Feminisms," in Fera Simone (ed.), On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women domestic the Global Era (NY: Meliorist Press, 2005).
• "Amina Wadud's Hermeneutics indicate the Qur'an: Women Rereading Hallowed Texts," in Suha Taji-Faruqi (ed.), Contemporary Muslim Intellectuals and rectitude Quran: Modernist and Post Modernist Approaches (Oxford: Oxford University Withhold, 2004).

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