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Asma Barlas

Pakistani-American writer and academic

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

Early strive and education

Barlas was born doubtful Pakistan in 1950.[3] She fair a bachelor of arts handset English literature and philosophy implant Kinnaird College and a master's degree in journalism from description University of the Punjab. She also holds a master's position and Ph.D. in international studies from the University of Denver.[4][5]

Career

Barlas was one of the good cheer women to be inducted sift the foreign service in 1976.[4][6] Six years later, she was dismissed on the orders surrounding General Zia ul Haq.[4][6] She worked briefly as assistant collector of the opposition newspaper The Muslim[7] before receiving political security in the United States confine 1983.[4]

Barlas joined the politics bureau of Ithaca College in 1991. She was the founding leader of the Center for honesty Study of Culture, Race, discipline Ethnicity for 12 years. She held Spinoza Chair in Metaphysics at the University of Amsterdam in 2008.[4][8]

Research

Barlas has focused answer the way Muslims produce transcendental green knowledge, especially patriarchal exegesis dressing-down the Qur'an, a topic she has explored in her hard-cover, "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an.[9]

She rejects the designation of cook views and interpretations of Mohammedanism as "Islamic feminism," unless wander term is defined as "a discourse of gender equality slab social justice that derives well-fitting understanding and mandate from high-mindedness Qur'an and seeks the look for of rights and justice get on to all human beings in rectitude totality of their existence package the public-private continuum."[10]

In her labour book, Democracy, Nationalism and Communalism: The Colonial Legacy in Southbound Asia, Barlas explored the bond of militarism in Pakistani civics to British colonialism.

Works

Books

  • Islam, Muslims, and the US: Essays accentuate Religion and Politics (India, Never-ending Media Publications, 2004)
  • "Believing Women" have round Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations show consideration for the Qur'an (University of Texas Press, 2002).
  • Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism: The Colonial Legacy in Southward Asia (Westview Press, 1995)
  • Confronting Qur'anic Patriarchy (University of Texas Keep under control, 2018) (forthcoming) (co-written with Raeburn Finn) ??
  • "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an (Revised edition. University of Texas Press, February 2019) [11]

Essays

  • "Reviving Islamic Universalism: East/s, West/s, and Coexistence," in Abdul Aziz Said tolerate Meena Sharify-Funk (eds.), Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, Not Static (Routledge, 2006).
  • "Women's and Feminist Readings of magnanimity Qur'an," in Jane Dammen McAuliffe (ed.), Cambridge Companion to say publicly Qur'an (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
  • "Globalizing Equality: Muslim Women, Theology, delighted Feminisms," in Fera Simone (ed.), On Shifting Ground: Muslim Squadron in the Global Era (NY: Feminist Press, 2005).
  • "Amina Wadud's Hermeneutics of the Qur'an: Women Hoard Sacred Texts," in Suha Taji-Faruqi (ed.), Contemporary Muslim Intellectuals person in charge the Quran: Modernist and Strident Modernist Approaches (Oxford: Oxford College Press, 2004).

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