Dr. Azizah al-Hibri

Dr. Azizah Y. al-Hibri is Professor Emerita at the University of Richmond School of Law. She is the first American Muslim woman to become a professor at an American law school. She is also a former Professor of Philosophy, founding editor of Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and founder of Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights (see http://www.karamah.org).

Dr. al-Hibri was a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (2011-13), a Library of Congress Scholar‑in‑Residence, and Fulbright scholar and National Humanities Center scholar (2000‑2001). Dr. al-Hibri is signatory to the Marrakesh Declaration (2016) and the Washington Declaration (2017) asserting freedom of conscience for religious minorities in Muslim countries.

Dr. al-Hibri has written extensively, and has lectured at home and abroad, on issues of Muslim women’s rights, the Islamic marriage contract, Islam and democracy, human rights in Islam, Islamic interfaith values, and Muslim civil rights in the U.S.

Dr. al-Hibri’s books include The Islamic Worldview, Deontic Logic. She has edited several volumes, including Women and Islam, and Technology and Human Affairs. Her recent articles, published mainly in law journals, include An Islamic Perspective on Domestic Violence, Redefining Muslim Women’s Roles in the Next Century, and The Nature of the Islamic Marriage. Many of Dr. al-Hibri’s articles can be found at www.karamah.org/articles.

Dr. al-Hibri has received many honors and awards, including the Virginia First Freedom Award, presented in 2007 by the Council for America’s First Freedom, and the Life Time Achievement Award in 2009 from the Journal of Law & Religion. She was also the first American woman to be invited by King Muhammad VI of Morocco to deliver a lecture at the royal palace. This lecture was part of the prestigious Dourousse Hassaniyyah, a Ramadan lecture series televised to the public.