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professor of politics and women's studies, member of the British House of Lords [39] Nazir Afzal: United Kingdom: 1962 – Public prosecutor and campaigner focusing on violence against women and so-called honour crimes [40] Leila Ahmed: Egypt: 1940 – Writer on Islam and feminism [41] Safia Ahmed-jan: Afghanistan: 1941: 2006: Afghan women's ...
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 ...
Samina Ali is an American author and activist born in India. [2] Her debut novel , Madras on Rainy Days , won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger award from France and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction.
Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa (Arabic: الوفاء بأسماء النساء, romanized: al-wafāʿ bi-ʿasmāʿ an-nisāʿ, lit. 'Loyalty with the Names of Women') is a 43-volume Arabic biographical compendium that documents the lives of women who participated in the narration of hadiths or played crucial roles in their dissemination.
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)
Hijab Imtiaz Ali (1908–1999) was a writer, editor and diarist. She is a well known name in Urdu literature and a pioneer of romanticism in Urdu. [1] She is also considered as the first female Muslim pilot after she obtained her official pilot license in 1936, although Zuleykha Seyidmammadova from Soviet Azerbaijan had qualified as a pilot two years earlier, in 1934.
U.S.-based RASA Film Group is launching a film collective at the Sundance Film Festival. The collective is actively exploring projects featuring strong female protagonists, narratives centered ...
Ibtihaj Muhammad (born December 4, 1985) is an American sabre fencer, author, entrepreneur and Olympic medalist.At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics in hijab, the first American Muslim woman to win an Olympic medal, [1] and the first Black woman to win an Olympic medal in the sabre event, when she won bronze in the women’s saber team event.