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A traditionally-trained female scholar is referred to as ʿālimah or Shaykha. [1] The inclusion of women in university settings has increased the presence of women scholars. [ 2 ] Akram Nadwi authored the largest compilation on female Islamic scholars, titled Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa , spanning over two decades and containing a repository of ...
Author of O, My Muslim Sisters, Weep [55] Susan Carland: Australia: 1978 – academic [56] Kamala Chandrakirana: Indonesia – human rights activist [57] Shirin Ebadi: Iran: 1947 –; activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner for her efforts for the rights of women and children [58] Sineb El Masrar: Germany 1981 – Moroccan-German author and magazine ...
U Shwe Yoe (a Burmese Muslim named U Ba Ga Lay. He was also a cartoonist, actor, comedian and dancer.) He was also a cartoonist, actor, comedian and dancer.) Sikdar Aminul Haq (Bangladeshi)
Pages in category "Women scholars of Islam" The following 98 pages are in this category, out of 98 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Lila Abu-Lughod;
Some Muslim women writers and activists have eschewed identifying themselves as Islamic feminists out of a belief Western feminism is exclusionary to Muslim women and women of color more generally. [15] Azizah al-Hibri, a Lebanese-American Muslim scholar, has identified herself as a "womanist". [16]
Between Faizunnesa and Rokeya, there were few more: Latifunnesa, whose ‘Bangiya Musalman Lekhikader Prati’ (To the Bengali Muslim Women Writers) was published in Bamabodhini Patrika in 1897, and Azizunnesa, the first known Muslim woman to have been published in a Muslim-run magazine, Islam Pracharak, as her poem ‘Hamd Orthat Ishwar Stuti ...
This is a list of notable women writers. ... Mrs Meer Hassan Ali (fl.1832) British born writer about Muslim life in India; ... pen name of Roxanne Longstreet Conrad ...
Set in 2010, the book also tackles the theme of life as a Muslim in the post-9/11 era. [26] Bird Summons: Published in 2019, Bird Summons is a story of three Muslim women who travel to the Scottish Highlands to visit the grave of Lady Evelyn Cobbold, the first British woman to complete the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. [27]