Berkley Center

Riffat Hassan is a professor emerita of religious studies at the University of Louisville, where she taught for 33 years until her 2009 retirement. She is a Pakistani-American theologian and a feminist scholar of the Qur’an. Before coming to Louisville she taught at Oklahoma State University, Harvard University, Villanova University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Iliff School of Theology. Hassan's eight books include Women's and Men's Liberation: Testimonies of Spirit (1991, co-edited with Haim Gordon and Leonard M. Grob), The Sword and the Sceptre (1977), The Bitter Harvest (1977), and An Iqbal Primer (1979), as well as numerous articles and essays. She received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Durham University; her thesis focused on Muhammad Iqbal. Hassan immigrated to the United States in 1972.