Asma Lamrabet
Asma Lamrabet is a Moroccan doctor, Islamic feminist, scholar and author.
Personal life
Asma Lamrabet was born in Rabat. She currently resides in Rabat, Morocco. She considers her education to be occidental. She is married with one child.Career
Trained in medicine, she worked as a volunteer doctor in Spain and Latin America. She mainly worked in Chile and Mexico for eight years starting in 1995. She came into contact there with Liberation Theology, which caused her to examine her own religion.From 2004 until 2007, she returned to Morocco, where she gathered a group of Muslim women interested in researching and reflecting upon Islam and intercultural dialog.
In 2008, she became president and a board member of International Group of Studies and Reflection on Women and Islam, based in Barcelona. GIERFI has members and experts from at least eight countries including the United Kingdom, France, the United States and Morocco. Their mission is to help create a new female Muslim consciousness.
In she became Director of Studies and Research Center on Women's Issues in Islam of under the patronage of King Mohammad VI. As director, she organized an international seminar for women across the three large Abrahamic religions.
She published English and French articles that explore contentious issues, such as interfaith marriage and religious reform, in a Muslim context.
She is a third-way feminist who revises sacred Islamic texts. She has been compared to Amina Wadud and Margot Badran due to their shared belief that the interpretations that underlie Islamic Law from the 9th century were excessively patriarchal and must be reinterpreted. Lamrabet has also cited Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as intellectual inspiration to resist the hegemony of Western feminism.