The Lady Imam
How amina wadud's Life and Faith Changed the World
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The Lady Imam
Narrated by:
Carla Power, Adenrele Ojo
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Narrated by:
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Carla Power
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Adenrele Ojo
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Carla Power
Summary
“A testament to what it means to labor for justice from inside a faith tradition—to love it enough to transform it . . . The Lady Imam is right on time to ignite our courage.”—Valarie Kaur, bestselling author of See No Stranger and Sage Warrior
A feminist scholar-activist, single mother of five, and queer advocate, amina wadud has led a struggle against Islam’s patriarchal establishment that’s been felt keenly all over the world. Like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X before her, wadud has mobilized faith’s potential as an engine of equality. Yet this American trail-blazer’s story has never been told in book form—until now.
Born Mary Teasley, the daughter of a Methodist preacher, wadud grew up in Maryland with a rare vantage on socioeconomic divides, living through poverty and her sister’s death from an illegal abortion. A gifted student, teenage wadud was sent to live with affluent white families in Weston, Massachusetts. After cross-country hitchhiking and a stint in a Buddhist ashram, she converted to Islam as a twenty-year-old Ivy League student.
wadud devoted her life to studying the Qur’an and challenged centuries of patriarchal interpretations, finding in it equality for all. In Manhattan in 2005, she became the world’s most famous—and infamous—Islamic scholar when she became the first woman in 1400 years to lead men and women together in public Friday prayers.
The Lady Imam chronicles the life of a singular figure not only in Islam, but also in feminism, Black history, and gender studies. With unprecedented access through years of interviews and archival research, Carla Power has written the definitive account of wadud's extraordinary life while shedding light on our deepest questions about faith, family, and social justice.
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Critic Reviews
“amina wadud’s life is a testament to what it means to labor for justice from inside a faith tradition—to love it enough to transform it. Carla Power’s portrait is intimate, bold, and necessary. In wadud’s struggle, we recognize our own: the cost of standing in truth, the long labor of changing hearts and minds and laws, the spiritual fire that makes it possible to keep on. The Lady Imam is right on time to ignite our courage.”—Valarie Kaur, bestselling author of See No Stranger and Sage Warrior
“Carla Power’s The Lady Imam is a ‘must read,’ a masterful study of the life and reformist thought of amina wadud, a ground-breaking Muslim feminist and activist for women’s equality and rights.”—John L. Esposito, editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, and founding director of Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown
“A riveting and groundbreaking portrait of a woman who changed feminism forever. Power’s prose is propulsive and vibrating with the revolutionary energy of amina wadud’s tremendous and courageous life.”—Rafia Zakaria, author of Against White Feminism
“Carla Power’s The Lady Imam is a ‘must-read,’ a masterful study of the life and reformist thought of amina wadud, a groundbreaking Muslim feminist and activist for women’s equality and rights.”—John L. Esposito, editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, and founding director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University
“Carla Power’s The Lady Imam is a ‘must read,’ a masterful study of the life and reformist thought of amina wadud, a ground-breaking Muslim feminist and activist for women’s equality and rights.”—John L. Esposito, editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, and founding director of Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown
“A riveting and groundbreaking portrait of a woman who changed feminism forever. Power’s prose is propulsive and vibrating with the revolutionary energy of amina wadud’s tremendous and courageous life.”—Rafia Zakaria, author of Against White Feminism
“Carla Power’s The Lady Imam is a ‘must-read,’ a masterful study of the life and reformist thought of amina wadud, a groundbreaking Muslim feminist and activist for women’s equality and rights.”—John L. Esposito, editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, and founding director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University
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