Introducing Dr. Mahjabeen Dhala as Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies (Center for Islamic Studies) and the Director of the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program.

Please join us in introducing Dr. Mahjabeen Dhala as Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies (Center for Islamic Studies) and the Director of the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program.

Join us for Dr. Dhala's virtual talk entitled, "The Sermon of Fatima: Women’s Theology, Leadership, and Social Justice"

Mahjabeen Dhala’s interdisciplinary research features an integration of classical theological Islamic texts as well as the kaleidoscope of modern feminist theories to confront and contribute to the rapidly developing discourse between faith and feminism. In this talk, she draws on a marginalized classical Shia text known as the Khutbat Fadakiyya (Sermon of Fatima) to interrogate the undersupply of accounts of significant female contributions to Islamic doctrine, practice, social justice, and devotional piety. Her work focusses on exploring constructive methodologies towards a collaborative dialogical interreligious space which thrives at the GTU to explore narratives and contributions of female theologians across traditions and to provide a premise for addressing current concerns of women in religious, racial, and political minorities.

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Learn more about the Madrasa-Midrasha program here.