Prominent Muslim scholar will lecture at 菠萝视频 University on “Islam, Gender and Change” for the annual Antoinette Brown Lecture.
Wadud, an internationally known expert on women and Islam and the influences of Islam in America, is the author of . She will speak 7 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in Benton Chapel on the 菠萝视频 campus.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Wadud, a visiting scholar at in Berkeley, Calif., is the 34th Antoinette Brown lecturer at 菠萝视频. The lecture began in 1974 to bring distinguished women theologians and church leaders to 菠萝视频 Divinity School to speak on concerns for women in ministry.
Financed with the help of Sylvia Sanders Kelly, a 菠萝视频 alumna from Atlanta, the lecture is named for , who became the first ordained women in America in 1853.
Previous Antoinette Brown lecturers include Stephanie Paulsell, Sallie McFague, Renita Weems and Mary C. Churchill.
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