Nimat hafez barazangi biography

This Community houses the various publications and scholarly works of Nimat Hafez Barazangi in the fields of Feministist and Women Studies and Linguistics, Culture and Religion.

Barazangi's fifty years of combined scholarly active work with Arab, Muslim, and non-Muslim organizations and individuals in North America and the Muslim world has been intertwined with her academic research and achievements that resulted in over 60 published research and encyclopedia articles, book reviews, edited journal, computerized instructional programs http://www.eslelf-learning-arabic.cornell.edu, and three monographs:

She Received several awards for her Action Research, including:

• Senior Fulbright Scholarship from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars to Syria 2005-2006.
• United Nations Development Program TOKTEN Fellowships 1999 and 2002
• Visiting Fellowship from Oxford University's Centre of Islamic Studies (1994).
• Three-year (1995-1997) Serial Fulbright Scholarship from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars to Syria.
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  Nimat Hafez Barazangi: Education

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  This document provides a curriculum vitae for Nimat Hafez Barazangi, a research fellow at Cornell University. It outlines her extensive education background, including various graduate degrees from Columbia University and Cornell University as well as an undergraduate degree from Damascus University. It then details her current position at Cornell University along with past positions and honors received. Finally, it describes her research experience focusing on Muslim and Arab women, curriculum development experience, teaching experience, and policy making engagements. The CV demonstrates Barazangi's long career working on issues related to women, Islam, and education through research, curriculum development, teaching, and policy work.

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  Nimat Hafez Barazangi

  Muslim Women's Islamic Higher Learning as a Human Right: The Action Plan

  SSRN Electronic Journal, 1997

  How do we expect the Muslim woman, collectively and individually, to identify with Islam as rever... more How do we expect the Muslim woman, collectively and individually, to identify with Islam as revered teachings and to act within its parameters, and to accommodate new human knowledge, be it that of a local Mufti's (clergy) injunction or a human rights advocate's recommendation, while neither Muslim societies nor human rights advocates recognize her self-identity as an autonomous spiritual and intellectual being? Accessing Islamic higher learning (deeper knowledge of the Islamic primary sources, the Quran and the authentic Hadith [prophetic tradition]), is argued to be the means by which the Muslim woman self-identity is recognized as a trustee. Relying solely on others' interpretations to guide her spiritual and intellectual needs is by itself an evidence that the Muslim woman's right to understand, to consciously choose, and to ac