Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in a bicultural family, Gisela Webb completed her academic studies at the Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania obtaining her B. A. and M. A. in 1980 and 1986 respectively. She earned her PhD in religious studies from the same university in 1989 under the supervision of Islamic philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr.[5] Webb has been at Seton Hall University since 1989. She has also taught at Gadja Mada University in Indonesia and was awarded Fulbright Award for Teaching and Research and Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in 2009. Webb has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies and was a member of the American Academy of Religion.[6]
Selected works
The Human/angelic Relation in the Philosophies of Suhrawardi and Ibn Arabi (Temple University, 1989)
Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists of North America (Women and Gender in Religion) (Syracuse University Press, 2000)[7]
References
^Daniella Vinitski Mooney, The Annual Children's Play at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, Ecumenica, Vol. 11, No. 2, Theatre and Performance in Muslim Worlds, pp. 68-75 (Penn State University Press, Fall 2018) p. 68
^Jamal Malik and John Hinnells (eds), Sufism in the West (Routledge, 2006) p. viii
^Merin Shobhana Xavier, Masjids, Ashrams and Mazars: Transnational Sufism and the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship (2015).
Theses and Dissertations (Wilfrid Laurier University: Comprehensive). 1751.
Available online
^Ramin Jahanbegloo, In Search of the Sacred : A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought, ABC-CLIO (2010), p. 72
^Religious Studies News, Vol. 24, No. 4, (American Academy of Religion, October 2009), p. 44
^Reviews of Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists of North America:
Lotfi, Abdelhamid (2000). "Review of Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar Activists in North America". The Arab Studies Journal. 8/9 (2/1): 179–182. ISSN1083-4753. JSTOR27933793.
