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Leila Ahmed

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in Cairo, Egypt

January 01, 1940

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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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	A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman's Journey 3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate 3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edward W. Lane: A Study Of His Life And Works And Of British Ideas Of The Middle East In The Nineteenth Century 1.0 of 5 stars 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1978	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miṣr ʻalá Mafraq Al Ṭuruq: Khāyir Bik Al Mamlūkī, 923 928 H1517 1522 M 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1987	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mawt Ṭiflah Mughtaribah: Qiṣaṣ Qaṣīrah 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1987	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars