Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

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  , A veteran of the civil rights movement, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is now an American Muslim and professor of religion who specializes in gender issues.
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  Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons "Communal Reconciliation and Healing through Fundamental Social and Individual Personal Change"

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  People like Bob Moses, Anne Braden, Prathia Hall, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Clarence Jordan, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Marion King, Grace Lee Boggs, Julia Esquivel, Ndugu T'Ofori-Atta, and Staughton and Alice Lynd.
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  Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) project leader in Laurel, Mississippi, in 1964, describes how she and her teenage and young-adult colleagues in Freedom Summer interacted with older community members with whom they were working to mobilize political and educational reform in the area.
  
  Simmons says, "We were seen as ‘leaders,' people who brought a vision, people who brought resources, ideas, and materials that they wanted.At the same time, because of our youth we were also children to them."
  
  Living with local community leaders, Simmons and other young activists were expected to replicate time-honored African-American forms of intergenerational association.
  
  Euberta Sphinks, a long-standing local activist in the Laurel community, opened her home and her heart to Simmons.The relationship the two women developed was generally indicative of the way younger organizers and the older local citizens engaged each other.
  
  "I had to obey Mrs. Sphinks when it came to what time I could come in and where I was going," says Simmons.

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  They are Anne Moody's autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, and the Veterans of Hope Project videos of Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons and Ruby Sales.
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  Simmons shares her journey and work with SNCC and how her experience helped shape her understanding of faith.
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  Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons: Islamic Scholar and SNCC Organizer (2000)

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  Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ph.D., Contributing EssayistGwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ph.D., is a feminist scholar of Islam and former SNCC Organizer.She is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Florida, where her primary academic focus is on Islamic law and its impact on contemporary Muslim women.Her primary academic focus in Islam is on Islamic Law and its impact on Muslim women.She conducted research in Jordan, Egypt, Palestine and Syria on the Shari'ah's impact on women, contemporarily and the women's movements in those countries to change these laws.Dr. Simmons also teaches on the topics of African-American religious traditions and race, religion, and rebellion.She is currently completing a manuscript for New York University Press whose working title is: Muslim Feminism - A Call for Reform.Dr. Simmons has a thorough grounding in Sufism (the mystical stream in Islam) having studied for seventeen years with the contemporary Sufi Mystic, Shaykh M.R. Bawa Muhaiyadeen.In addition to her academic and spiritual studies she has a long history in the area of civil rights, human rights and peace work, which includes being a member of the staff of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker-based, international peace and justice non-governmental organization for twenty three years.

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  Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Professor & Activist, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

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  Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, a veteran of the Civil Rights struggle and now a professor of religion, can attest to this insight.Raised a Southern Baptist, as an adult she adopted the practice of Sufism, the mystical stream of Islam.She found that one of the major obstacles in her spiritual journey was the anger she had internalized from her own experience of oppression.
  
  In an interview at the University of Florida, where she teaches Islam, she told us, "I remember specifically [my teacher] Bawa telling me that I had to deal with this.

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  Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons has a long history in civil rights, human rights, and peace work.In the 1960s she was active with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee 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.She was on the staff of the american Friends Service Committee, a Quaker peace, justice, human rights, and international development organization headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for 23 years.She was a disciple in Sufism (the mystical stream in Islam) from 1971-1986 under the guidance of Sheikh Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyadeen, a Sufi mystic from Sri Lanka, and remains an active member of the Bawa Muhaiyadeen Fellowship and Mosque.She is currently an assistant professor of religion and affiliated faculty in the Women Studies Department of the University of Florida.

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  Ramadan Banquet featuring Gwendolyn Simmons, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in Islamic Studies, Women & Religion, African-American Religious Traditions

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  By Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
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  Simmons is among the speakers at the 2006 Trinity Institute National Theological Conference, "The Anatomy of Reconciliation: from violence to healing."
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  Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons came to Islam by way of Sufi mysticism and nonviolent struggle in the Civil Rights movement.She is currently an assistant professor of religion and affiliated faculty in the Women Studies Department of the University of Florida.
  
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  Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ph.D., Islamic Scholar
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  Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ph.D., Islamic Scholar

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