Bahar Davary | |
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| Citizenship | Iranian-American |
| Education | The Catholic University of America (PhD) University of Tehran (BA, MA) |
| Awards | Hobart & William Smith Excellence in Community Service Award (2003) Adèle Mellen Prize (2009) Steber Professor (2011)[1] Mortar Board Award (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | theology,religious studies |
| Institutions | University of San Diego |
| Thesis | The Image of Woman in Islamic Tradition: a Study of its Formation in. Language and Tradition (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Cenkner |
Bahar Davary is an Iranian-American religious studies scholar and Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at theUniversity of San Diego. She is known for her work on comparative study of religion and Islamic studies.[2][3][4]
Davary's interests are broadly within the field of Comparative Religion focusing on Islamic studies. Davary's first monographWomen and the Qur'an: A Study in Islamic Hermeneutics (Lewiston, New York:Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), which was awarded theAdèle Mellen Prize, examines development, continuity, and change in the representation of women in theQur'an with a focus on dynamic identities of the text. Davary's later writings focuses on the development of Muslim feminist ideas, especially as it involves with the questions ofOrientalism,colonialism, neo-orientalism, and patriarchy. She has published several papers in academic journals and encyclopedias and has presented more than 100 lectures locally, nationally, and internationally. Since 2005, She has been a faculty member of USD.[5] Prior to that she was a professor atHobart and William Smith Colleges in upstateNew York.
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