Kecia Ali

ALI145 Bay State Road, Suite 402
Boston, MA 02215
T: 617.353.4465; F: 617.358.3087
Email: ka@bu.edu
Spring 2012 Office Hours: Wed 1:00-3:00pm, Fri 11:00am-12:00pm

 

Bio

An Associate 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. She completed her undergraduate education at Stanford University with a degree in History and honors in Feminist Studies. From 2001 to 2003, Ali worked as a research analyst for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University. 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; women in both classical and contemporary Muslim discourses; and religious biography. She is the author of Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence (2006), Islam: The Key Concepts (co-authored with Oliver Leaman), Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (2010), and Imam Shafi’i: Scholar and Saint (2011) in Oneworld’s Makers of the Muslim World series. Her current research focuses on biographies of Muhammad.  She serves as co-chair for the Study of Islam Section of the American Academy of Religion and is a member of its Status of Women in the Profession Committee.

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Books

A Jihad for Justice - for Amina Wadud 2012-1-1 A Jihad for Justice; Honoring the work and life of Amina Wadud
By Kecia Ali, Juliane Hammer, and Laury Silvers

 

 

Iman Shafi'iImam Shafi’i: Scholar and Saint
By Kecia Ali
Oneworld Publications
November 16, 2011
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Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam
By Kecia Ali
Harvard University Press
October 1, 2010
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Islam: The Key Concepts
By Kecia Ali & Leaman
Routeldge Publications
December 30, 2007
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Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence
By Kecia Ali
Oneworld Publications
June 25, 2006
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Courses

  • CAS RN 104 Religions of the World: Western | Syllabus
  • CAS RN 214 Islam
  • CAS RN 340/640 The Quran | Syllabus
  • CAS RN 434/734  Representations of Muhammad
  • CAS RN 344/644 Islam and the West | Syllabus
  • CAS RN 345/645 Islamic Law
  • CAS RN 316/616 Modern Islam | Syllabus
  • CAS RN434/734 Representations of Muhammad
  • CAS RN 435/735 Women, Gender, Islam | Syllabus

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