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\n\t\t\tDr. Zainab Alwani is currently the Founder, Program Director, and the first Associate Professor\u00a0of Islamic Studies at the Howard University School of Divinity (HUSD). She is also the chair of\u00a0the Master of Arts (Religious Studies) program at HUSD.<\/p>\n
Dr. Alwani received her Ph.D. in\u00a0Islamic Sciences and Islamic Jurisprudence from the International Islamic University in\u00a0Malaysia. Her Ph.D dissertation focused on the implementation of Maqasid al Shariah: Family\u00a0Issues in the American Muslim Family. She is an educator with over 20 years of teaching and\u00a0curriculum development experience in Islamic Studies and Arabic. Dr. Alwani is the first female\u00a0jurist to serve on the board of the Fiqh Council of North America and currently serves as the\u00a0Council\u2019s Vice-Chair.<\/p>\n
She has authored and co-authored a wide variety of publications ranging from books, textbooks\u00a0and book chapters, to scholarly articles. She is particularly interested in deriving methodologies\u00a0for approaching the Qur\u2019an, Sunna and Islamic jurisprudence in the area of women, gender and\u00a0family. She recently co-edited a special issue of The Muslim World journal published by\u00a0Hartford Seminary, Judaism and Islam in America, October 2014 Volume 104, Issue 4. She is\u00a0currently the editor of the Journal of Islamic Faith and Practice, a scholarly peer-reviewed\u00a0academic journal, published by Indiana University and sponsored by Islamic Seminary\u00a0Foundation.<\/p>\n
Some of her latest publications include: Maq\u0101\u1e63id Qur\u1fbd\u0101niyya: A Methodology on Evaluating\u00a0Modern Challenges and Fiqh al-Aqalliyy\u0101t (p 465\u2013487), the book \u201cAlusra fi Maqasid al sharia:\u00a0Qira\u2019 fi Qadaya al zawaj waltalaq fi Amrika\u201d The Family and Maqasid Al Shariah: Marriage\u00a0and Divorce: American Muslim Family,\u201d \u201cMuslim Women as Religious Scholars: A Historical\u00a0Survey,\u201d in Muslima Theology: New Voices of Muslim Women Theologians;\u201d and co-author\u00a0\u201cReligion, Gender, And Family Law: Critical Perspectives On Integration for Western-Muslims\u201d\u00a0in Applying sharia in the West”, Leiden University Press. She is currently working on a book\u00a0called, \u201cIslamic Jurisprudence: Role of Women Scholars Reforming Islamic Family Law in\u00a0Morocco\u201d which investigates the influence and the dynamics of women religious scholarship and\u00a0activism on the advancement of Islamic Jurisprudence, family and society in contemporary\u00a0Morocco.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to Directors & Advisors\n\t\t<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Zainab Alwani, PhD DIRECTOR Dr. Zainab Alwani is currently the Founder, Program Director, and the first Associate Professor\u00a0of Islamic Studies at the Howard University School of Divinity (HUSD). She is also the chair of\u00a0the Master of Arts (Religious Studies) program at HUSD. Dr. Alwani received her Ph.D. in\u00a0Islamic Sciences and Islamic Jurisprudence from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}