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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- القرآن والمرأة ؛
- Qur'an and Woman
- Inside the Gender Jihad
- Qurʼan and woman
- Whatever Works
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,145x
- 2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
· 2020 · cited 8,249x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,585x
- Peeking Inside the Black-Box: A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
· 2018 · cited 5,233x
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Quotes
- “The process of establishing in Muslim society is neither simple nor straightforward. There is not one strategy, one method or one process. What works today may be unsuccessful tomorrow.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1952-09-25 ) September 25, 1952 (age 73) , Bethesda, Maryland , U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of Pennsylvania , University of Michigan , American University in Cairo , Cairo University , Al-Azhar University
- Era
- 21st-century philosophy
- Institutions
- International Islamic University Malaysia , Starr King School for the Ministry
- Main interests
- Islamic studies , Islamic feminism , theology , philosophy , interfaith dialogue
- Notable ideas
- Women as imams
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Amina Wadud (born Mary Teasley, September 25, 1952) is an American Muslim theologian. Wadud serves as visiting professor at 4 Consortium for Religious Studies and was also a visiting scholar at Starr King School for the Ministry. Wadud has written extensively on the role of women in Islam.
Born and raised as a Methodist in Bethesda, Maryland, Wadud converted to Islam in 1972 while studying at the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to study Arabic and Islamic studies, first in the United States and later in Egypt. Wadud made international headlines in 2005 when she led Friday prayers at a mixed congregation in New York, stirring controversy in some spheres of the Islamic world. Regardless, Wadud has continued to lead prayers at various congregations around the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amina Wadud” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.