Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (Arabic: إيفون يزبك حداد; born inSyria) is Professor Emerita of the History of Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations at thePrince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding atGeorgetown University. Her interests and focus include contemporary Islam; intellectual, social and political history in the Arab world; Islam in the West; Quranic Exegesis; and gender and Islam. Haddad's current research focuses on Muslims in the West and on Islamic Revolutionary Movements.[1] She has published extensively in the field of Islamic studies.
Haddad has been described as "at the top of her field in the study of Muslims in America"[2] and "the foremost interpreter of the Islamic experience in the United States."[3] She is the leading figure in a school of thought that sees the key issue for Muslims in the US as being the conflict between traditional Islamic values and integration into mainstream US society.[4]
Haddad received her Ph.D. in the Economic, Political Development, and Islamic Heritage in 1979 fromHartford Seminary inHartford,Connecticut, and her master's degree in Comparative History 1971 from theUniversity of Wisconsin inMadison. Additionally, she attendedBoston University, where she received an M.R.E. in Religious Education and Leadership Development in 1966, and theBeirut College for Women in Lebanon.[1] She was also Professor of History at theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst.[5]
Yvonne Haddad describes herself as aPresbyterian.[6] She emigrated to the United States in 1963.[6]
