Hadia Mubarak is an Associate Professor of Religion at Queens University of Charlotte, where she teaches courses on Islam, comparative scriptures, women and gender in the Muslim world, the history of Islam in America, and religious representation in popular culture, among other courses. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Guilford College (2018-2020) and as a Research Fellow at New York University-Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)\u2019s Institute in the Humanities (2017-2018). Mubarak completed her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Georgetown University, where she specialized in modern and classical Qur\u02beanic exegesis, Islamic feminism, and gender reform in the modern Muslim world. She currently serves as a scholar-in-residence with the Muslim Community Center of Charlotte (MCC), a Board of Advisors member with the Carleton Center for the Study of Islam (CCSI), and a scholar with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her new book, Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur\u02beanic Commentaries<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2022), explores significant shifts in modern Qur\u02beanic commentaries on the subject of women against the backdrop of broader historical, intellectual and political developments in twentieth-century North Africa. Mubarak\u2019s publications include, among others, \u201cWomen\u2019s Contemporary Readings of the Qur\u02bean\u201d in The Routledge Companion to the Qur\u02bean<\/em> (Routledge, 2021); \u201cViolent, Oppressed and Un-American: Muslim Women in the American Imagination\u201d in The Personal is Political<\/em>, eds. Christine Davis and Jon Crane (Brill, 2020); \u201cGender and Qur\u02beanic Exegesis\u201d in The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender<\/em>, ed. Justine Howe (Brill, 2020); \u201cChange Through Continuity: A Case Study of Q. 4:34 in Ibn \u02bf\u0100sh\u016br\u2019s Al-Ta\u1e25r\u012br wa-l-Tanw\u012br<\/em>\u201d (Journal of Qur\u02beanic Studies<\/em> 20.1 February 2018); \u201cBreaking the Interpretive Monopoly: A Re-Examination of Verse 4:34\u201d (Hawwa<\/em> 2.3); and \u201cCrossroads,\u201d I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim<\/em> (White Cloud Press, 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mubarak previously taught as a lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2015-2017) and a visiting lecturer at Davidson College (2015-2016). In 2006-2007, Mubarak served as a Senior Researcher at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and a researcher at the Gallup Organization\u2019s Center for Muslim Studies, where she contributed research to Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think<\/em> (Gallup Press, 2008) and The Future of Islam<\/em> by John Esposito. In 2006, Mubarak joined the \u201cIslam in the Age of Globalization\u201d initiative, sponsored by American University, Brookings Institute and the Pew Forum. As a field researcher, Mubarak conducted on-site interviews and surveys with a range of Muslim scholars, government officials, activists, students, and journalists in Qatar, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan and India and published an analysis of these surveys in Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization<\/em> (The Brookings Institution Press, 2008). Mubarak received her master\u2019s degree in Contemporary Arab Studies with a concentration in Women and Gender from Georgetown University. She received her bachelor\u2019s degree in International Affairs and English from Florida State University. In 2004, Mubarak was the first female to be elected president of the national Muslim Students Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ph.D., Georgetown University Biography Hadia Mubarak is an Associate Professor of Religion at Queens University of Charlotte, where she teaches courses on Islam, comparative scriptures, women and gender in the Muslim world, the history of Islam in America, and religious representation in popular culture, among other courses. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Guilford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3415","directory","type-directory","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/directory"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5017,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3415\/revisions\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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