Prominent Muslim scholar Amina Wadud will lecture at Vanderbilt 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 Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective. She will speak 7 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in Benton Chapel on the Vanderbilt campus.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Wadud, a visiting scholar at Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, Calif., is the 34th Antoinette Brown lecturer at Vanderbilt. The lecture began in 1974 to bring distinguished women theologians and church leaders to Vanderbilt Divinity School to speak on concerns for women in ministry.
Financed with the help of Sylvia Sanders Kelly, a Vanderbilt alumna from Atlanta, the lecture is named for Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 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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