Hadia Mubarak joined Queens University of Charlotte as an Assistant Professor of Religion in the fall of 2020. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Guilford College and as a Research Fellow at New York University-Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), where she wrote her monograph, Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Quranic Commentaries (OUP, forthcoming). Mubarak completed her PhD in Islamic Studies from Georgetown University where she specialized in modern and classical Qurʾanic exegesis, Islamic feminism, and gender reform in the modern Muslim world. She currently serves as a scholar-in-residence at the Muslim Community Center of Charlotte and a scholar fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.
Her upcoming book publication, Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qurʾanic Commentaries (Oxford, forthcoming), explores significant shifts in modern qurʾanic commentaries on the subject of women against the backdrop of broader historical, intellectual and political developments in the early twentieth century. Mubarak’s publications include, among others, “Violent, Oppressed and Un-American: Muslim Women in the American Imagination” in The Personal is Political, eds. Christine Davis and Jon Crane (Brill, 2020); “Gender and Qurʾanic Exegesis” in The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender, ed. Justine Howe (Brill, 2020); “Change Through Continuity: A Case Study of Q. 4:34 in Ibn ʿĀshūr’s Al-Taḥrīr wa-l-Tanwīr” (Journal of Qurʾanic Studies 20.1 February 2018); “Breaking the Interpretive Monopoly: A Re-Examination of Verse 4:34” (Hawwa 2.3); and “Crossroads,” in I Speak For Myself: American Women on Being Muslim (White Cloud Press, 2011).
You can find more of her work at https://Queens.academia.edu/HadiaMubarak