Faculty

College / Department

Department of Arabic and Translation Studies

Teaching areas

Arabic Heritage Islamic Philosophy Islamic Studies Ethics in Arabo-Islamic tradition Philosophy

Research areas

Ethics in Islam Medieval Arabic thought Women and gender Islamic Philosophy, Contemporary Arab thought

Education

PhD, Moral philosophy in the work of Al-Qadi 'Abd al-Jabbar, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Department, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

PGD, Higher Diploma in Medical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Jordan, Jordan

Master, Thesis title: "Philosophy and scientific methodology of 'Abd al-Lat̩īf al- Baghdādī"., University of Jordan, Jordan

PGD, Higher Diploma in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Jordan, Jordan

BS, B.Sc., Physics, Department of Physics, University of Jordan, Jordan

Professional experience

Lecturer at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2018 - Present)

Adjunct faculty at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2016 - 2018)

Visiting Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2015 - 2016)

Visiting Scholar, Adjunct Faculty at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2014 - 2015)

Head of the Department at King's Academy, Jordan(2010 - 2014)

Faculty at King's Academy, Jordan(2008 - 2010)

Part time lecturer at University of Jordan, Jordan(2007 - 2008)

Clinical Scientist at Cookridge Hospital, United Kingdom(2005 - 2006)

Medical Physicist at Ministry of Health, Jordan(1988 - 2004)

Part time lecturer at Ministry of Health, Jordan(1990 - 1992)

Memberships

American Philosophical Association (APA), 2017 - present

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), 2008 - present

The Jordanian Philosophical Society, 2012 - 2014

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2501

Dr. Mariam Al-Attar

Lecturer

PhD in Islamic Ethics, University of Leeds, UK

Mariam Al-Attar has taught courses in ethics, Islamic studies, world religions and philosophy at the University of Jordan and at King's Academy in Jordan. At the American University of Sharjah she has taught courses on Arab heritage, introduction to philosophy, and Islamic philosophy. Her main research interests include ethics in medieval Arabo-Islamic thought, modern and contemporary Arab moral thought and women and gender in the Islamic tradition . Prior to her academic career, she was a physicist working as a clinical scientist in Jordanian hospitals and in the UK.

Publications

Mariam Al-Attar, "The Theory of the Purposes of the Shari'a" (in Arabic), in The Moral Questions of the Qur'an, by Mu'taz al-Khatib, Submitted, 2020

Mariam Al-Attar, Mohammed Hashas, "Theories of ethics in Islamic thought and the question of moral pluralism" in Pluralism in Islamic Thought, edited by Mohammed Hashas, Springer, , Submitted, 2020

Mariam Al-Attar, "Divine command ethics in the Islamic legal tradition" in Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law, edited by Khaled Abou El Fadl et al., London, Published, pp. 98-111, 2019

Mariam Al-Attar, Meta-ethics: A Quest for Epistemological Basis of Morality in Classical Islamic Thought, Published, Journal of Islamic Ethics - Brill, 1, 1-2, pp. 29-50, 2017

Mariam Al-Attar, Food Ethics: A Critique of Some Islamic Perspectives on Genetically Modified Food, Published, Zygon, 52, 1, pp. 53-75, 2017

Mariam Al-Attar, "The ethics and metaphysics of divine command theory" in The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy, edited by Richard Taylor and Luis Lopez Farjeat, Routledge, New York, Published, pp. 315-324, 2016

Mariam Al-Attar, "Women and Violence: in Light of an Islamic Normative Ethical Theory" in Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies, edited by Zahia Smail Salhi, I. B. Tauris, UK, Published, pp. pp. 62 - 82, 2013

Mariam Al-Attar, Islamic Ethics: Divine Command Theory in Arabo-Islamic Thought, Routledge, London and New York, Published, 2010

Conference Presentations

Mariam Al-Attar, Normative Islamic Ethical Theory and the Question of Gender Equality, Musawah knowledge building meeting , Toronto, Canada, December, 2019

Mariam Al-Attar, The question of pluralism and moral values in Arabo-Islamic thought, Symposium on Islamic Philosophy, Al-'Ain, United Arab Emirates, April, 2019

Mariam Al-Attar, Reconciling Common Morality and The Purposes of Law, an attempt to reconstruct a foundation for religious and moral pluralism, European Academy of Religion – Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy, March, 2019

Mariam Al-Attar, Theories of Ethics in Islamic Thought and the Question of Moral Pluralism, Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought, Casablanca, Morocco, July, 2018

Mariam Al-Attar, Food Ethics: The debate over the permissibility of the Genetically Modified food (GM food) in contemporary Muslim juridical ethics, Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signifier, Beirut, Lebanon, May, 2016

Mariam Al-Attar, Reflections on Arab Feminist Thought, Women, Empowerment and Development Conference, Mostaganem, Algeria, November, 2015

Mariam Al-Attar, A quest for Epistemological Basis of Morality in Classical Islamic Thought, Methodology Seminar on Qur'an and Ethics, Doha, Qatar, January, 2015

Mariam Al-Attar, Meta-ethics: The analysis of ethical terms and concepts in Arabo-Islamic thought, Mapping Arabic Heritage: Language, Literature and Culture, Past and Present, April, 2014

Mariam Al-Attar, Gender and Violence in Islam, 12th Mediterranean Research Meeting MRM, Montecatini, Terme, Italy, April, 2011

Mariam Al-Attar, Islamic Ethics (in Arabic), Religion and ethics, Amman, Jordan, April, 2011

Mariam Al-Attar, Comparison between the Principle of Utility and the Doctrine of al-Mas̩lah̩a, WOCMES Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2010

Mariam Al-Attar, Reconsidering the Place of Ethical Voluntarism an Arabo-Islamic Thought, BRISMES annual conference, Leeds, England, July, 2008

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