Zahra Ayubi

Zahra Ayubi is an associate professor of religion at Dartmouth College. She specializes in women and gender in premodern and contemporary Islamic ethics and has published on gendered concepts of ethics, justice, and religious authority, and on Muslim feminist thought and American Muslim women's experiences. Her first book, Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society (Columbia, 2019) rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical ethics from a feminist critical perspective. Her forthcoming book, Women as Humans: Life, Death, and Gendered Being in Islamic Medical Ethics, is a textual and ethnographic study of gender and gendered experiences in Muslim biomedical ethics. 

Background

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MA
• Brandeis University, BA

Areas of Study

• Islamic Ethics
• Gender in Islam
• Islam in America