WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE QUR'AN 

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020

This monograph is a groundbreaking study of women and girl figures in the Qur'an with attention to biological sex, female sexuality, female voices, and femaleness in ontological, cosmological, biological, social, and spiritual dimensions.

"Well written and thoughtfully structured, the book is a valuable scholarly contribution to contemporary Muslim theological writing." 

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JULIANE HAMMER

Associate Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

"The first comprehensive survey in English of female figures in the Quran and an important contribution to scholarship."

LEILA AHMED

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity,

Harvard University

"Ibrahim shines new light on gender in the Qur'an with a comprehensive analysis of its narratives about women."

MARION KATZ

Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies,

New York University

"Women and Gender in the Quran is a fine analysis of female agency, faith, wisdom, knowledge, and proximity to God in Islam."

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OUSMANE KANE

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Harvard University

Faith leaders, artists, and activists reflect on justice, human dignity, freedom, their sacred wisdom traditions, their readings of the Qur'an, and their hopes for the future of interfaith relations.

ONE NATION, INDIVISIBLE

SEEKING LIBERTY AND JUSTICE  FROM THE PULPIT TO THE STREETS.

Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2019

"This prayerful, poetic, and prophetic collection will inspire you to build a nation that welcomes the contributions of all people."

EBOO PATEL

Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core

"With One Nation, Indivisible: Seeking Liberty and Justice from the Pulpit to the Streets, Celene Ibrahim, a formidable Muslim scholar of Islam, has crafted a volume of easy reading on profoundly important matters."
 
LUCINDA MOSHER
Senior Editor Journal of Interreligious Studies Faculty Associate in Interfaith Studies Hartford Seminary