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Leila Ahmed

Leila Ahmed - Introduction –
Leila Ahmed is a famous professor of Religion and Women’s Studies at the Harvard Divinity School. Leila Ahmed is originally of Egyptian American origin.

Before she came to Harvard, Leila Ahmed was a renowned professor of Near Eastern studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The University of Cambridge granted her undergraduate as well as graduate degree prior to her shifting to the United States. She moved to America for writing and teaching.

Background of Leila Ahmed –
Leila Ahmed was born in 1940 in Cairo’s Heliopolis district and belonged to a rich Egyptian American family. Her childhood days were spent among tolerant predilection of upper classes in Egypt and Muslim values of the country. In the 1952 Free Officers Movement the last ruling king of Egypt was removed from power and family of Leila Ahmed and several others in her surroundings was irretrievably altered. Leila’s father was a civil engineer and was strictly against the formation of the historic Aswan High Dam by Gamal Abdel Nasser due to his principles regarding ecology. The ruling power thus was against him for the coming years. Its anger also affected the family negatively.

Writing of Leila Ahmed –
‘A Border Passage’ – Leila Ahmed wrote a memoir in 1999, by the name ‘A Border Passage’. The multicultural rearing in Cairo and her life as an adult emigrant in America is depicted in her autobiography. She narrates her story of introduction to Islam. This was due to her grandmother when she was a child. She learnt to differentiate it from Islam, which is official. Official Islam is talked about and practiced by a male religious privileged class mostly. This comprehension of hers inspired her to write her first popular book – ‘Women and Gender in Islam’. Written in 1993 it is a notable work on Muslim feminism, Islamic past and role of women in the past of Islam.

‘Women and Gender in Islam’ -
Leila Ahmed speaks against the domineering practices of oppressing the fair sex in the Middle East in ‘Women and Gender in Islam’, her influential work. These women are dominated due to the existing paternal analysis of Islam. She expresses that when it began Muhammad offered two different voices to Islam. One voice says that a principled structure supports spiritual and moral parity of all humans and the other voice says that a hierarchal structure forms the base of relationships between a man and woman.

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