http://www.calem.eu/Amina-Wadud-doctor-imam.

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Doctor Amina Wadud was born as Mary Teasley in Bethesda, Maryland. Her father
was a Methodist minister and her mother was descended from Muslim slaves
of Arab, Berber and African ancestry dating back to the 8th Century. She received
her B.S, from The University of Pennsylvania, between 1970 and 1975. In 1972
she pronounced the shahadah and accepted Islam, not knowing of her maternal
ancestry and by 1974 her name was officially changed to Amina Wadud to reflect
her chosen religious affiliation. She received her M.A. in Near Eastern Studies and
her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Michigan in 1988.
During graduate school, she studied advanced Arabic inEgypt at the American
University in Cairo, continued with Qur'anic studies andtafsir at Cairo University,
Egypt, and took a course in Philosophy at Al-Azhar University.