Azizah Y. al-Hibri
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Biography
Al-Hibri is professor emerita at the T. C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond. She is a former professor of philosophy, founding editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and founder and president of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. A Fulbright scholar, she has written extensively about Islam and democracy, Muslim women's rights, and human rights in Islam. She was an adviser to the PBS documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (2002), produced by Unity Productions Foundation.
Al-Hibri is a member of the advisory board of various organizations, including the Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life, the Pluralism Project Harvard University, and Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (PBS). She is also a member of the Constitution Project's Liberty and Security Committee. In June 2011, al-Hibri was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.[1]
She also wrote the third chapter of Transforming the Faiths of our Fathers: Women who Changed American Religion (2004), edited by Ann Braude.[2]
Al-Hibri is the grandchild of Sheik Toufik El Hibri who established the first Scout movement in the Arab world.
Sources
- "Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out" (2005)
References
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- ↑ "President Obama Appoints Professor al-Hibri to U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom", USCIRF, June 8, 2011. Retrieved on January 16, 2015.
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