Dr. Zohara Simmons

Lessons of 9/11 / All Citizens of the World Are Children of God / The US Must Apply the Golden Rule to Ourselves and Others / Self-Examination Instead of Fault-Finding / The "Kick-Butt" Policy Must Change to Understand Others - Dr. Zahara Simmons, Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Florida

Dr. Zohara Simmons, Asst.Prof.
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Leaders: Zohara Simmons, Ass,t.

Dr. Zohara Simmons, Asst.Prof.
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Leaders: Zohara Simmons, Ass't.

Islamic Insights - Zohara Simmons, University of Florida
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Dr. Simmons is currently an Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Florida in Gainesville.She is also affiliated faculty in the Women Studies Department at UF.Simmons received her BA from Antioch University in Human Services and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion with a specific focus on Islam from Temple University.Additionally, she received a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from Temple.Simmons' primary academic focus in Islam is on the Shari'ah (Islamic Law) and its impact on Muslim women, contemporarily.Simmons spent two years (1996-1998) living and conducting dissertation research in the Middle East countries of Jordan, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria.The areas of focus for her teaching include: Islam, Women, Religion and Society; Women and Islam and African American Religious Traditions.In addition to her academic studies, Simmons was a disciple in Sufism (the mystical stream in Islam) for seventeen years (1971-1986) under the guidance of Sheikh Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyadeen, a Sufi Mystic from Sri Lanka, until his passing.She remains an active member of the Bawa Muhaiyadeen Fellowship and Mosque and student of this great Saint's teachings.Simmons has a long history in the area of civil rights, human rights and peace work.She was on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker peace, justice, human rights and international development organization headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa. for twenty-three years.During her early adult years as a college student and thereafter, she was active with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and spent seven years working full time on Voter Registration and desegregation activities in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's.