Azizah al hibri biography sample paper

Dr. Azizah Y. al-Hibri is the founder of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. She is also Professor Emerita at the University of Richmond School of Law. Dr. al-Hibri is the first Muslim woman to become tenured in an American law school.

Azizah al hibri biography sample paper pdf

She is also a former professor of Philosophy, and founding editor of Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

In the 1980’s, Dr. al-Hibri began her long journey of developing a gender-equitable Islamic jurisprudence on women’s rights, addressing issues such as the marriage contract, and critiques of personal status codes of select Muslim countries.

In the 1990’s she became concerned about issues of justice and democracy in a comparative constitutional context. She shared her perspectives on all these issues at speaking engagements throughout Europe, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the United States.

Dr. al-Hibri was a signatory to the Marrakesh Declaration (2016) and the Washington Declaration (2017) as