Dr. Celene Ibrahim is a multidisciplinary scholar specializing in Islamic intellectual history, gender studies, comparative religion, and ethics. She is best known for her monograph Women and Gender in the Qur'an (Oxford University Press, 2020). The book won the Association of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award and was featured by the American Academy of Religion for Women's History Month. Ibrahim is also the author of Islam and Monotheism (Cambridge University Press, 2022), an accessible primer on Islamic notions of the divine. She is the editor of the anthology One Nation, Indivisible: Seeking Liberty and Justice from the Pulpit to the Streets (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2019), excerpts of which are featured in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin. Ibrahim also writes on spiritual care, chaplaincy, religious leadership, and related themes. She regularly publishes essays and book reviews in scholarly journals and popular publications.

 

Ibrahim is a trusted voice for educational content on Islam, interreligious relations, and religion in the public sphere for media outlets, including NPR, PBS, and Netflix. She offers courses and lectures for educational and civic institutions around the world and is currently a faculty member at Groton School in the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy where she also holds an appointment as Muslim Chaplain. Ibrahim previously served as a Denominational Counselor with the Office of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School and as the Muslim Chaplain at Tufts University. She has held research positions and offered courses at multiple institutions of higher education and has held multiple fellowships in education, including at the New York Times Learning Network and at Teachers College at Columbia University. She is a member of multiple scholarly working groups and is a consultant and collaborator on initiatives for diversity, equity, inclusion, and conflict transformation, including at the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning and Leadership at Hebrew College.

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Ibrahim earned her bachelor's degree with highest honors at Princeton University, where she was a Davis Scholar and majored in Near Eastern Studies. She received a degree in divinity from Harvard University as a Presidential Scholar focusing on Muslim religious and civic leadership. She was named a Mellon Fellow and earned a doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Civilizations in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University where she also earned a dual master's degree in Women's and Gender Studies and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. Ibrahim is a graduate of the United World College and serves on the United World College National Committee for the United States. She is a life-long student of traditional Islamic sciences. 

 

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