Kecia Ali

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Kecia Ali is currently a Assitant Professor of Religion at Boston University. She previously held research and teaching fellowships at Brandeis University and at the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. At Harvard Divinity school she completed a book on marriage in early Islamic jurisprudence. From 2001 to 2003, she worked with the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, writing about women and gender in Islamic texts and Muslim communities. She received her Ph.D. in Religion (Islamic Studies) from Duke University and has contributed articles to the anthologies Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism and Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith. In 2004, she returned to Brandeis as a Mellon Fellow in Islamic Studies and Women’s Studies; she will be working on a book on sexual ethics and Islam.

  • Background information is from the Brandeis University Website and from her book on Sexual Ethics and Islam: feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence.


To the hightlighted chapters of Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence