
Intisar A. Rabb is a professor of law at Harvard Law School, and director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program: SHARIAsource. She also holds an appointment as a professor of history and as the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She has published the monograph Doubt in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press 2015), an edited volume, Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought (wit…
… event, he plans to talk with Intisar and Manal about whether it’s fair that people often see Islam and women’s rights as opposed. He’ll try to pick apart the ways in which deeply discriminatory and sexist local cultures get mapped onto Islam. He’ll also ask them to articulate their visions for Islam and who gets to represent it.