Gisela Webb

American scholar of comparative religion

Gisela Goodrich Webb is an American scholar of comparative religion and professor emerita of religious studies at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.^[1]^[2] Her works mainly focus on the intellectual and mystical traditions of Islam, Muslim women's rights and Islam in America.^[3]^[4]

Biography

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in a bicultural family, Gisela Webb completed her academic studies at the Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania obtaining her B. A. and M. A. in 1980 and 1986 respectively. She earned her PhD in religious studies from the same university in 1989 under the supervision of Islamic philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr.^[5] Webb has been at Seton Hall University since 1989. She has also taught at Gadja Mada University in Indonesia and was awarded Fulbright Award for Teaching and Research and Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in 2009. Webb has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies and was a member of the American Academy of Religion.^[6]

Selected works

The Human/angelic Relation in the Philosophies of Suhrawardi and Ibn Arabi (Temple University, 1989)
Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists of North America (Women and Gender in Religion) (Syracuse University Press, 2000)^[7]

References

^ Daniella Vinitski Mooney, The Annual Children's Play at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, Ecumenica, Vol. 11, No. 2, Theatre and Performance in Muslim Worlds, pp. 68-75 (Penn State University Press, Fall 2018) p. 68
^ Jamal Malik and John Hinnells (eds), Sufism in the West (Routledge, 2006) p. viii
^ Merin Shobhana Xavier, Masjids, Ashrams and Mazars: Transnational Sufism and the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship (2015). Theses and Dissertations (Wilfrid Laurier University: Comprehensive). 1751. Available online
^ News, The Dallas Morning. "Defeated Iraqi capital once an intellectual center, spiritual hub". Daily Herald. Retrieved 2019-12-16. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
^ Ramin Jahanbegloo, In Search of the Sacred : A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought, ABC-CLIO (2010), p. 72
^ Religious Studies News, Vol. 24, No. 4, (American Academy of Religion, October 2009), p. 44
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Reviews of Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists of North America:
- Lotfi, Abdelhamid (2000). "Review of Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar Activists in North America". The Arab Studies Journal. 8/9 (2/1): 179–182. ISSN 1083-4753. JSTOR 27933793.
- Denny, Frederick M.; Webb, Gisela (2000). "Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America". Journal of Law and Religion. 15 (1/2). JSTOR: 535. doi:10.2307/1051563. ISSN 0748-0814. JSTOR 1051563. S2CID 154035119.
- Lotfi, Abdelhamid Lotfi (2000). "Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America". The Arab Studies Journal. 8/9 (2/1). JSTOR 27933793.
- Bracke, Sarah (2002). "Book Reviews: Windows On the Lives of Muslim Women". European Journal of Women's Studies. 9 (2). SAGE Publications: 207–212. doi:10.1177/13505068020090020704. ISSN 1350-5068. S2CID 220319978.
- Hamdy, Sherine (November 20, 2001). "North American Muslim Women Voice their Concerns". MINDS@UW Home. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- Dianu, An-Chi Hoh (2002). "Book Reviews: Windows On the Lives of Muslim Women". MELA Notes. 75/76 (2). Middle East Librarians Association: 110–112. JSTOR 29785783.
- Mir, Shabana (2001). "Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America". American Journal of Islam and Society. 18 (4). International Institute of Islamic Thought: 195–199. doi:10.35632/ajis.v18i4.2000. ISSN 2690-3741.