geopractice

Nadia merupakan ahli sejarawan yang banyak menulis tentang sejarah Islam. Antara artikel beliau adalah tentang Abbasid dan Byzantine. Beliau dilantik sebagai Dekan, Faculty of Arts and Science, AUB pada 2016 (link).

She was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003 and 2004 and at Harvard University in 1998. In 2007 she was the Shawwaf Visiting Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

Baca "women lamentation's and death rituals in early Islam". Sebuah paper presentation Nadia di OSU pada 2015. (link).

This paper analyzes the ways in which Mourning rituals served as markers in the articulation of religious identities and the evolving conceptions of Islam in its early centuries. The excessiveness of the pre-Islamic female lamenters would be contrasted to the controlled, quietist attitude, which the women of the new faith were to follow upon the death of their loved ones. One of the paper’s main conclusions is that women’s roles in death rituals were critical in providing new normative guidelines, which were to be contrasted with pre-Islamic practices; and that their personality and participation in death rituals during this pivotal era served as markers for religious and ideological shifts constitutive of the period.

Maria El-Cheikh

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