# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leila-ahmed
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:57.828Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leila-ahmed"
name: "Leila Ahmed"
slug: "leila-ahmed"
description: "Leila Ahmed is an Egyptian-American scholar of women's studies and religion. In 1992 she published her book Women and Gender in Islam, which is regarded as a pioneering historical analysis of the position of women in Arab Muslim societies. She became the first professor of women's studies in religion at Harvard Divinity School in 1999, and has held the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity chair since 2003. She was later awarded the Victor S. Thomas Research Professor of Divinity in 2020."
tagline: "Egyptian-American writer and professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leila_Ahmed.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "EG"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1940"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           22.446404
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  225
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump