Episode 8: Dr. Ibrahim; Women and Gender in Islam

Dr. Celene Ibrahim is a multidisciplinary scholar specializing in Islamic intellectual history, gender studies, comparative religion, and ethics. She is best known for her monograph Women and Gender in the Qur'an (Oxford University Press, 2020). The book won the Association of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award and was featured by the American Academy of Religion for Women's History Month. She is also the author of Islam and Monotheism (Cambridge University Press, 2022), an accessible primer on Islamic notions of the divine. She is the editor of the anthology One Nation, Indivisible: Seeking Liberty and Justice from the Pulpit to the Streets (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2019), excerpts of which are featured in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin. She also writes on spiritual care, chaplaincy, religious leadership, and related themes. She regularly publishes essays and book reviews in scholarly journals and popular publications.