We encourage you to read the Vancouver Sun story on Dr. Ayesha S. Chaudhry’s new book from Oxford University Press.
You are welcome to join the book’s official launch:
Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition
A book launch with Dr. Ayesha S. Chaudhry
Friday, March 7, 2014
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Lobby Gallery
Liu Institute for Global Issues
6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver
Dr. Ayesha S. Chaudhry is the author of Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics, Law and the Muslim Discourse on Gender (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). This book explores the relationship of modern Muslims to the inherited Islamic tradition through a study of legal and exegetical discussions of wife-beating in the pre- and post-colonial periods.
Dr. Chaudhry is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Gender Studies in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC. She completed her Ph.D. at New York University in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Her research interests include Islamic law, Qur’anic exegesis, and feminist hermeneutics. She is an Early Career Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and is the recipient of the Research Mentorship award for an interdisciplinary project entitled, Living Islam Between Text and Practice: A Case Study of Domestic Violence.
