List of female Muslim scholars
This article is a list of female scholars of Islam considered by reliable sources to be leading authorities on the teachings and rulings of the Islam. They are the female equivalent of ulema and are referred to as "aalimah" or Shaykha.[1]
7th century
8th century
9th century
10th century
- Amat al-Wahid[2]
- Lubna of Cordoba
- Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah also known as Shaykhah Shuhdah.[3]
12th century
13th century
- Zaynab bint ʿUmar al-Kindī
- Zaynab bint al-Kamal[5]
17th century
- Zeb-un-Nisa, Mughal princess
- Zinat-un-Nissa, Mughal princess, contributor to the Hanafi lexicon Fatawa-e-Alamgiri.[6]
18th century
- Fatima al-Fudayliya, also known as al-Shaykha al-Fudayliya.[7][8]
19th century
20th century
21st century
- Asma Afsaruddin
- Asifa Quraishi
- Azizah al-Hibri
- Fatima Mernissi
- Laleh Bakhtiar
- Riffat Hassan
- Farhat Hashmi
- Merryl Wyn Davies
- Ingrid Mattson
- Maria Ulfah
References
- ↑ "Aalimah Studies". Azhar Academy, London. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- 1 2 Aliyah, Zainab. "Great Women in Islamic History: A Forgotten Legacy". Young Muslim Digest. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ↑ "Shaykhah Shuhdah, Fakhr-un-Nisa". Haq Islam. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ Abdullah, Umar Farooq. "The Empowering Jurist: Fatima al-Samarqandi". MSA McGill. Muslim Students' Association. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ↑ Sayeed, Asma (2013). Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam (illustrated ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 163–165. ISBN 1107031583. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ↑ 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. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubayr (1993). "Hadith Literature Its origin, development and special features: Women Scholars of Hadith". The Islamic Texts Society Cambridge: 117–123. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
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