It was early 2009 and US Muslim communities were shocked into action by the murder of Aasiya Zubair, killed by her husband in a domestic violence (DV) crime that followed years of domestic abuse and her filing for divorce.
Juliane Hammer
Juliane Hammer is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in the study of gender and sexuality in Muslim societies and communities, race and gender in US Muslim communities, as well as contemporary Muslim thought, activism and practice, and Sufism. She is the author of Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland (2005), American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer (2012), and Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence (2019) She is also the co-editor of A Jihad for Justice: The Work and Life of Amina Wadud (with Kecia Ali and Laury Silvers, 2012) and the Cambridge Companion to American Islam (with Omid Safi, 2013). Dr. Hammer is currently working on a book project on patriarchal perspectives on marriage and sexuality in American Muslim communities.