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Student presentation profiles Riffat Hassan and her work in interreligious dialogue and women’s empowerment
Summary
A student presenter described the life and work of Riffat Hassan, a Pakistani‑born theologian who taught in the U.S., founded interreligious exchange programs and promoted women’s empowerment through local outreach and international networks.
Anne Marie, a student presenter at the University of Montana conference session on Islam and the West, summarized the life and work of Riffat Hassan, a theologian and scholar who has spent much of her career promoting interreligious dialogue and women’s empowerment.
Anne Marie said Hassan sought to counter reductive views of Islam — “The face of Islam doesn't have to be the Taliban or the Ayatollahs,” she told the…
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