Leila Ahmed (born 1940; Arabic: ???? ?????) is an Egyptian American writer on Islam and Islamic feminism. She became the first professor of women's studies in religion at Harvard Divinity School in 1999, and had held the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity chair since 2003. In 2013, Ahmed received the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her analysis of the "veiling" of Muslim women in the United States.Continue Reading »
