Emran El-Badawi
Dr. Emran El-Badawi is Dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at Tarleton State University, where he is also Full Professor of History, Geography and GIS. He was formerly Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston, where he also served as Associate Professor and Program Director of Middle Eastern Studies. He is author of Female Divinity in the Qur'an (2024); Queens and Prophets (2022); The Qur’an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions (2013), and co-editor of Communities of the Qur’an (2019). His current research projects include a book on female power in late antique Arabia, and another on hate speech as a global crisis. He has contributed to Forbes, The Houston Chronicle, and The Christian Science Monitor.
Personal Website: DrElBadawi.COM
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instrumental in shaping the history of the world.
Between Rome’s intervention in the Arabian
Peninsula and the Arab conquests, they ruled
independently, conducting trade and making
war. Their power was celebrated as queen,
priestess and goddess. With time some even
delegated authority to the most important holy
men of their age, influencing Arabian paganism,
Christianity and Islam.
Empress Zenobia and Queen Mavia supported
bishops Paul of Samosata and Moses of Sinai.
Paul was declared a heretic by the Roman
church, while Moses began the process of mass
Arab conversion. The teachings of these men
survived under their queens, setting in motion
seismic debates that fractured the early churches
and laid the groundwork for the rise of Islam.
In sixth-century Mecca, Lady Khadijah used
her wealth and political influence to employ a
younger man then marry him against the wishes
of dissenting noblemen. Her husband, whose
religious and political career she influenced, was
the Prophet Muhammad.
A landmark exploration of the legacy of female
power in late antique Arabia, Queens and
Prophets is a corrective that is long overdue.
On numerous occasions throughout history, believers from different schools and denominations, and at different times and places, have agreed to disagree. The Qur'anic interpreters, jurists and theologians of medieval Baghdad, Cairo and Cordoba coexisted peacefully in spite of their diverging beliefs. Seeking to revive this 'ethics of disagreement' of Classical Islam, this volume explores the different relationships societies around the world have with the Qur'an and how our understanding of the text can be shaped by studying the interpretations of others. From LGBT groups to urban African American communities, this book aims to represent the true diversity of communities of the Qur'an in the twenty-first century, and the dialogue and debate that can flow among them.