Wadad Afifi Kadi (born November 23, 1943) is a Lebanese scholar of Arabic and Islamic civilizations and the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Islamic Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the

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Wadad Kadi was born in Lebanon on November 23, 1943. She earned her BA and MA in Arabic Literature at the American University of Beirut, then went on to pursue doctoral studies at the

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in Germany, before finishing her Ph.D. at the American University of Beirut. She has taught at

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, AUB, and the

, as well as Harvard, Columbia, Stockholm University, and

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