Dr. Havva G. Guney-Ruebenacker is a visiting post-doc researcher at Harvard Law School. Her dissertation is titled “An Islamic Legal Realist Critiqu
Abidah, started life as a slave owned by Muhammad ibn Yazid. She learned a large number of hadiths with teachers in Madinah. She was given by her mast
As a scholar and member of the royal family of Bahrain, Al Khalifa has used her skills and status to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit of young Bah
Dr. Aminah McCloud is a professor of religious studies and director of the Islamic World Studies program at DePaul University in Chicago, USA. Dr.
Born in Aachen, Germany, Halima Krausen was raised by a Catholic-Protestant family but became Muslim in her early teens. Now, Krausen is the Imam of H
‘Aishah bint Muhammad grew up in Damascus during a time when Islamic scholarship was flourishing. Born into the Banu Qudamah, a prominent Hanbali fa
Jahanara, was an early Sufi scholar and the eldest daughter of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. She was also known by alternat
Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an independent documentary filmmaker and activist whose work focuses on using the moving image, the written and spoken word
