Roja Fazaeli
Professor
Islamic Civilisation(s)
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
My Ph.D. thesis was a comparative study of Islamic law and international human rights law concerning women in the Shi'a tradition and was funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences. I have published numerous papers and book chapters on the topics of Islam and gender, Islamic feminism and human rights. Currently I am working on completing a monograph on a conceptualization of Islamic feminism and human rights activism in Iran. I currently supervise six Ph.D./M.Litt. students and their topics range from Islamic mysticism and poetry to a reinterpretation of the death penalty in Islamic law. I have contributed to M.Phil. programmes at TCD (Gender and Women's Studies and International Peace Studies) as well as to the LL.M. in International and Comparative Law. I have been involved in a number of international projects with colleagues from the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, from the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (Hawza Project funded by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) and from Emory University where I am a global affiliate at the School of Law. I serve on the editorial board of the Journal for Religion and Human Rights. Previously I served on the boards of the Association of Persianite Studies, Irish Refugee Council and UNIFEM (UN Women) Ireland.
Research Interest
Gender and Women's Studies
Publications
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Elizabeth Bucar and Roja Fazaeli , Free speech in Weblogestan? The Off-Line Consequences of On-Line Discourse, , International Journal of Middle-Eastern Studies , 40:3, 2008, p403 - 419, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
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Roja Fazaeli and Jeroen Temperman, Book Review: Islam and the Secular State, Negotiating the Future of Sharia by Abdullahi An-Naim, Religion and Human Rights, 2009, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
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Religion and Human Rights, Leiden, The Netherlands, BRILL | NIJHOFF , [eds.], Six years, 2009, Editorial Board, PUBLISHED
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Of alima, vaizes, and mujtahidas: New Opportunities for Old Role Models? in, editor(s)Kalmbach, Hilary and Bano, Masooda , Women, Leadership and Mosques, Netherland, Brill, 2011, pp127 - 161, [Roja Fazaeli and Mirjam Kunkler], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Roja Fazaeli, Review of Gender Stereotyping Transnational Legal Perspectives , by Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack , International Journal of Group and Minority Rights, 19, 2012, Review, PUBLISHED
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International Laws and Treaties on Womens Status, The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, 2012, [Roja Fazaeli], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED
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In search of Iranian Feminisms: A Study of Iranian Womens Moveme in, editor(s)Chitra Raghavan , Womens Rights in the Changing Islamic World, New England University Press, 2012, [Roja Fazaeli], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Kar, Mehrangiz, Natala J. DeLong-Bas et al, The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, New York, Oxford University Press, 2013, [Roja Fazaeli], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED
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Womens Rights, Natala J. DeLong-Bas, The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, Oxford University Press, 2013, [Roja Fazaeli], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED
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Taliban, Natala J. DeLong-Bas, The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, Oxford University Press, 2013, [Roja Fazaeli], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED
