Hadia Mubarak
Associate Professor of Religion (Queens University of Charlotte)
| Degrees: | PhD (Georgetown University) |
| Email: | mubarakh@queens.edu |
is an Associate Professor of Religion at Queens University of Charlotte. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Guilford College and as a Research Fellow at New York University-Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Her forthcoming book, Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur示anic Commentaries (Oxford University Press, March 2020), explores significant shifts in modern Qur示anic commentaries on the subject of women against the backdrop of broader historical, intellectual and political developments in the early twentieth century.
Mubarak鈥檚 publications include, among others, 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Contemporary Readings of the Qur鈥檃n鈥� in The Routledge Companion to the Qur鈥檃n (Routledge, 2021), ed. George Archer, Maria M. Dakake, Daniel A. Madigan; 鈥淰iolent, Oppressed and Un-American: Muslim Women in the American Imagination鈥� in The Personal is Political, ed. Christine Davis and Jon Crane (Brill, 2020); 鈥淕ender and Qur示anic Exegesis鈥� in The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender, ed. Justine Howe (Brill, 2020); 鈥淐hange Through Continuity: A Case Study of Q. 4:34 in Ibn 士膧sh奴r鈥檚 Al-Ta岣墨r wa-l-Tanw墨r鈥� (Journal of Qur示anic Studies 20.1, February 2018); among others.
Mubarak completed her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Georgetown University, where she specialized in modern and classical Qur示anic 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) and a scholar with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU).