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An Assistant Professor of Religion, Kecia Ali received her Ph.D.
in Religion from Duke University, where she was the recipient of
the James B. Duke fellowship, in 2002. Her specialization was Islamic
Studies. Prior to beginning her studies at Duke, she completed her
undergraduate education at Stanford University.From
2001 to 2003, Ali worked as a research analyst for the Feminist
Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University. Her recent book,
Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an,
Hadith, and Jurisprudence (2006), grew out of her work with
this Ford Foundation initiative.In 2003-2004, Ali was a research
associate in Harvard Divinity School’s Women’s Studies
in Religion Program. From 2004-2006, she held a Florence Levy Kay
postdoctoral fellowship in Islamic Studies and Women’s Studies
at Brandeis University.Her research interests center on Islamic
religious texts, especially jurisprudence, and women in both classical
and contemporary Muslim discourses. Her main research focuses on
the ninth century, and in addition to her current book in progress,
Marriage, Gender, and Ownership in Early Islamic Jurisprudence,
she is also working on a biography of the jurist al-Shafi‘i.
She has served on the Steering Committee member for the Study of
Islam Section of the American Academy of Religion since 2003, and
as a member of the Steering Committee for the newly formed Consultation
on Religion and Sexuality since 2004.
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Books
Courses
CAS RN 104 Religions of the World: Western
CAS RN 214 Islam
CAS RN 340/640 The Quran
CAS RN 344/644 Islam and the West
CAS RN 316/616 Modern Islam
CAS RN 435/735 Women, Gender, Islam
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