Mattson is speaking as part of the Dr. Anna Akbar Memorial Lecture Series on Culture and Islam. Her topic is "Quran: Text, Context and Tradition."
Mattson earned her doctorate in 1999 from the University of Chicago. She is a senior fellow of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Jordan.
She is a past member of the Council on Global Leaders of the C-100 of the World Economic Forum and the Leadership Group of the US-Muslim Engagement Project.
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