Wakin, Jeanette

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Active 1966
Active 1998

Biographical notes:

Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Columbia University (1974-1998); Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Arabic Studies (1977-1998); President, American Association of Teachers of Arabic (1977-1978); Associate Editor for Islam and the Near East, Journal of the American Oriental Society (1978-1998); Member, Board of Directors, Middle East Studies Association (1981-1984); Fellow, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College (1985-1986).

For over thirty-two years (1966-1998) Jeanette Wakin taught at Columbia University. Among the courses she taught were Islamic Law, The Qu'ran and its Interpretation, Sexual Ethics and the Family in Islamic Law, Seminars on Islamic legal texts, and Islamic Civilization.

From the description of Papers , 1966-1998. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 237322996

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Subjects:

  • Domestic relations (Islamic law)
  • Fatwas
  • Hadith
  • Islamic law
  • Islamic law
  • Kitab al-shurut al-kabir
  • Women (Islamic law)

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