Hadia Mubarak

Hadia Mubarak is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Queens University of Charlotte. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Guilford College and as a Research Fellow at New York University-Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Mubarak completed her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Georgetown University, where she specialized in modern and classical Qurʾanic exegesis, Islamic feminism, and gender reform in the modern Muslim world.

Her forthcoming book, Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qurʾanic Commentaries (Oxford University Press, March 2020), explores significant shifts in modern Qurʾanic commentaries on the subject of women against the backdrop of broader historical developments in twentieth-century North Africa. Her other publications, among others, include “Women’s Contemporary Readings of the Qur’an” in The Routledge Companion to the Qur’an (Routledge, 2021); “Violent, Oppressed and Un-American: Muslim Women in the American Imagination” in The Personal is Political (Brill, 2020); and “Gender and Qurʾanic Exegesis” in The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender (Brill, 2020). You can read her work at https://Queens.academia.edu/HadiaMubarak