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Leila Ahmed

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January 01, 1940 in Cairo, Egypt

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Leila Ahmed (Arabic: لیلى احمد‎) is an Egyptian American professor of Women's Studies and Religion at the Harvard Divinity School. Prior to coming to Harvard, she was professor of Women’s Studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States to teach and write.

In her 1999 memoir A Border Passage, Ahmed describes her multicultural Cairene upbringing and her adult life as an expatriate and an immigrant in the West. She tells of how she was introduced to Islam through her grandmother during her childhood, and she came to distinguish it from "official Islam" as practiced and preached by a largely male reli...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 534 ratings · 58 reviews · 7 distinct works

	A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman's Journey 3.79 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate 3.90 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Edward W. Lane: A Study Of His Life And Works And Of British Ideas Of The Middle East In The Nineteenth Century 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1978	My rating:
	Aurat Jinsi Tafreeq aur iIslam 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Miṣr ʻalá Mafraq Al Ṭuruq: Khāyir Bik Al Mamlūkī, 923 928 H1517 1522 M 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	Mawt Ṭiflah Mughtaribah: Qiṣaṣ Qaṣīrah 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1987	My rating: