[2] She previously worked with Brandeis University's Feminist Sexual Ethics Project,[3] presided over the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics and was a research associate and postdoctoral fellow at Brandeis University and Harvard Divinity School.
[2] Ali has written relating to the topic of marriage, womanhood, and their connection with, and development alongside, Islam.
[6][7] Ali talks about controversial topics such as marriage, divorce, sex, concubinage, same-sex intimacy, and much more.
This 2016 edition supplements the existing chapters with a Coda to further expand on topics previously addressed.
[8] The Journal of Law & Religion calls Marriage and Slavery a "valuable contribution to the fields of legal, historical and gender studies.