Asma Barlas

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  • Asma Barlas is a Pakistani-American academic and writer born in 1950.

  • She specializes in comparative and international politics, Islam, Qur'anic hermeneutics, and women's studies.

  • Barlas made history as one of the first women in Pakistan's foreign service in 1976, but was dismissed by General Zia ul Haq in 1982.

  • After briefly working as an assistant editor for an opposition newspaper, she sought political asylum in the United States in 1983.

  • Barlas joined Ithaca College's politics department in 1991 and founded the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity.

  • In 2008, she held the prestigious Spinoza Chair in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.

Books by Asma Barlas