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Amina Wadud

1952 - Today

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Amina Wadud (born Mary Teasley, September 25, 1952) is an American Muslim theologian. Wadud serves as visiting professor at 4 Consortium for Religious Studies and was also a visiting scholar at Starr King School for the Ministry. Wadud has written extensively on the role of women in Islam. Born and raised as a Methodist in Bethesda, Maryland, Wadud converted to Islam in 1972 while studying at the University of Pennsylvania. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amina Wadud is the 1,063rd most popular philosopher (up from 1,080th in 2019), the 6,183rd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,699th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Amina Wadud ranks 1,063 out of 1,267. Before her are Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, Alois Riehl, Harald Høffding, Boris Parygin, Samuel ibn Tibbon, and Friedrich Eduard Beneke. After her are István Mészáros, Edmund Gettier, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Fazlur Rahman Malik, Robert Spaemann, and Jacob Taubes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Amina Wadud ranks 320. Before her are John D. Barrow, Johnny Thunders, Irina Allegrova, Mansour Ojjeh, Vyacheslav Zaytsev, and Alan Cooper. After her are Fernando Morena, Vitaly Churkin, Sefer Halilović, Ali Gomaa, Ana Obregón, and Mustafa Cerić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amina Wadud ranks 6,184 out of 20,380. Before her are Joe Exotic (1963), Jack Kramer (1921), Helen Jacobs (1908), Robert G. Ingersoll (1833), Louis Clarke (1901), and James Redfield (1950). After her are Robert Picardo (1953), JoBeth Williams (1948), Otto Warmbier (1994), Samuel Alito (1950), Jean Porter (1922), and Bobby Driscoll (1937).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Amina Wadud ranks 51. Before her are Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Lysander Spooner (1808), Lon L. Fuller (1902), Hubert Dreyfus (1929), Mary Whiton Calkins (1863), and Susan George (1934). After her are Edmund Gettier (1927), Mary Daly (1928), Josiah Royce (1855), William Lane Craig (1949), Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825), and Allan Bloom (1930).

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