Ingrid Mattson
Ingrid Mattson (born August 24, 1963 in Kingston (Ontario) , Canada ) is a Canadian scholar of Islam and a personality of Islam in North America.
Life
Mattson graduated from the University of Waterloo (BA 1987), converted to Islam in 1987 , and received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1999 . From 1998 to 2012 she was Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford (Connecticut) and headed the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations there for several years . From 2006 to 2010 she was President of the Islamic Society of North America . She was part of the Muslim delegation at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd seminars of the Catholic-Muslim Forum . Since 2012 she has been Professor of Islamic Studies at Huron University College of the University of Western Ontario in London (Ontario) .
She is one of the members (Senior Fellows) of the Royal Aal-al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in the Jordanian capital Amman .
She signed the message from Amman (Amman Message) and was one of the 138 signatories of the open letter a common word between us and you ( Engl. A Common Word Between Us and You ), the personalities of Islam to "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" ( English: "Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere ...") sent (October 13, 2007).
Mattson advocates a stronger role for women in Islam as publicly visible religious leaders. She wears a hijab , but believes that government agencies should neither force nor prohibit religious clothing.
Fonts
- The Story of the Qur'an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life. Wiley-Blackwell, 2nd edition 2013. ISBN 978-0-470-67349-2 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-118-25706-7 (eBook)
literature
- Edward E. Curtis (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History. 2010, pp. 362–363 ( online excerpt )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ de.radiovaticana.va: Vatican: Satisfied with conversation with Muslims
- ↑ acommonword.com: Delegations to the 'Second Catholic-Muslim Forum'
- ↑ Final Statement of the third Seminar of the "Catholic-Muslim Forum" (Rome, November 11-13, 2014), November 13, 2014
- ↑ acommonword.com: A common word between us and you (summarized short form) (PDF; 186 kB)
- ^ Muslim Women's Leadership . Ingrid Mattson. May 4, 2010. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mattson, Ingrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian scholar of Islam |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kingston (Ontario) |