List of female Islamic scholars
This article is an incomplete list of female scholars of Islam. 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 more than 10,000 entries.[3][4]
7th century
[edit]- Fatima
- Aisha
- Zaynab bint Ali
- Hafsa bint Umar
- Umm al-Darda as-Sughra
- Umm Hakim
- Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah
- Hafsa bint Sirin
- Umm Salama
- A'isha bint Talha
- Umm Kulthum bint Abi Bakr
- Na'ila bint al-Furafisa
- Umm al-Darda
- Sakina bint Husayn
8th century
[edit]- Fatima bint Musa
- Sayyida Nafisa
- Fatima al-Batayahiyyah
- Sumayyah bint Khabbat
- Fatima bint Mundhir
- Rabia Basri
- Atika bint Yazid
9th century
[edit]10th century
[edit]- Amat al-Wahid[5]
- Lubna of Córdoba
11th century
[edit]12th century
[edit]- Fatima al Samaraqandi[6]
- Taqiyya Umm Ali bint Ghaith ibn Ali al-Armanazi
- Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah also known as Shaykhah Shuhdah,[7] or Shuhdah al-Baghdadiyyah
13th century
[edit]14th century
[edit]- Sitt al-Wuzara' al-Tanukhiyyah
- Sitt al-Qudat
- Sitt al-'Arab
- Sitt al-'Ajam[9]
16th century
[edit]17th century
[edit]- Zinat-un-Nissa, Mughal princess, contributor to the Hanafi lexicon Fatawa-e-Alamgiri.[10]
- Jahanara Begum
18th century
[edit]- Dada Masiti
- Fatima al-Fudayliya, also known as al-Shaykha al-Fudayliya.[11][12]
19th century
[edit]20th century
[edit]- Aisha Abd al-Rahman
- Zainab al Ghazali
- Munira al-Qubaysi
- Maryam Jameelah
- Lady Amin
- Hāshimīyah al-Tujjar
- Iftikhār al-Tujjar
- Zīnah al-Sādāt Humāyūnī
- Muhammadi Begum
- Fatima al-Kabbaj
- Du Shuzhen
- Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch
- Amina al-Sadr
- Rahmah el Yunusiyah
21st century
[edit]- Asifa Quraishi
- Asma Afsaruddin
- Azizah al-Hibri
- Celene Ibrahim
- Farhat Hashmi
- Ingrid Mattson
- Laleh Bakhtiar
- Maria Ulfah
- Merryl Wyn Davies
- Riffat Hassan
- Siti Chamamah Soeratno
- Siti Noordjannah Djohantini
- Zailan Moris
- Siti Musdah Mulia
- Asma Lamrabet
- Maria Massi Dakake
- Sachiko Murata
- Amina Wadud
- Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal
- Fatima Mernissi
- Nahid Angha
- Aisha Bewley
- Amina Inloes
- Zohreh Sefati
- Tahera Qutbuddin
- Mohja Kahf
- Asma Barlas
- Mai Yamani
- Ziba Mir-Hosseini
- Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
- Halima Krausen
- Aminah McCloud
- Kecia Ali
- Mona Abul-Fadl
- Cemalnur Sargut
- Claude Addas
- Marcia Hermansen
- Sa'diyya Shaikh
- Zainab Alwani
- Salwa El-Awa
- Rebecca Masterton
- Tahereh Saffarzadeh
- Olfa Youssef
- Bahar Davary
- Rania Awaad
- Abla al-Kahlawi
- Aisha Gray Henry
- Aysha Hidayatullah
- Debra Majeed
- Suad Salih
- Aisha Lemu
References
[edit]- ^ "Aalimah Studies". Azhar Academy, London. Archived from the original on 27 June 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- ^ Hermansen, Marcia (2013). Muslima Theology: The Voice of Muslim Women Theologians. Peter Lang (Peter-Lang-Verlagsgruppe). p. 23.
- ^ Khan, Rushda Fathima (18 March 2021). "Rediscovering The Role Of Muslim Women Scholars In Islamic History: 43 Volume Work With 10,000 Biographies Published". The Cognate. Archived from the original on 25 July 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ^ Ruegel, Wafa (19 January 2021). "Devotion to Women's Names: Biographical Encyclopedia of Women in the Noble Prophetic Traditions". Muhammadiyah Association of Scholars. Archived from the original on 20 November 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ^ Aliyah, Zainab. "Great Women in Islamic History: A Forgotten Legacy". Young Muslim Digest. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ Abdullah, Umar Farooq. "The Empowering Jurist: Fatima al-Samarqandi". MSA McGill. Muslim Students' Association. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ "Shaykhah Shuhdah, Fakhr-un-Nisa". Haq Islam. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ^ Sayeed, Asma (2013). Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam (illustrated ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 163–165. ISBN 978-1107031586. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ^ Mernissi,F. (1993)."The Forgotten Queens of Islam". Polity Press: UK,p.20
- ^ Adhami, Shaykh Abdullah. "List of Muslim Female Scholars". Thoughts of a Hijabi. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ^ Farooq, Dr. Mohammad Omar; Siddiqi, Dr. Muhammad Zubayr. "Women Scholars of Hadith". Women Scholars of Islam: They Must Bloom Again. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubayr (1993). "Women Scholars of Hadith". Hadith Literature, Its origin, Development and Special Features. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society. pp. 117–123. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
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