Sa'diyya Shaikh

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Sa'diyya Shaikh
Born1969
Krugersdorp, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
OccupationIslamic studies scholar
Notable workSufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality

Sa'diyya Shaikh (born 1969) is a South African scholar of Islam and feminist theory. She is a professor of religion at the University of Cape Town. Shaikh studies Sufism in relation to feminism and feminist theory. [1] [2] Shaikh is known for work on gender in Islam and 'Ibn Arabi.

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Biography

Sa'diyya Shaikh was born in 1969 in Krugersdorp, South Africa to Indian Muslim parents. [3] [4] She grew up under the apartheid regime and witnessed the anti-apartheid movement which influenced her to seek liberatory readings of the Qur'an and the Islamic tradition. [5]

Shaikh has published works on Muslim women and gendered violence, feminist approaches to the Qur'an and hadith, contraception and abortion in Islam, and gender and Islamic law. [2] Shaikh was a 2016-2017 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin on the project "Gender, Justice and Muslim Ethics." [3] [6]

Shaikh is the author of Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality. The book explores the thought of Ibn 'Arabi from a feminist perspective. [7]

Shaikh is the co-author of The Women's Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World. Two khutbahs of Shaikh are featured, "Spirituality of the Ordinary" and "Divine Love, Human Love: Marriage as Heart-Cultivation". [8]

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References

  1. "Associate Professor Sa'diyya Shaikh | Department for the Study of Religions". www.religion.uct.ac.za. Archived from the original on 25 October 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Sa'diyya Shaikh | WISE Muslim Women Sa'diyya Shaikh". WISE Muslim Women. 14 August 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Sa'diyya Shaikh, Ph.D." Sa'diyya Shaikh, Ph.D. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  4. Shaikh, Sa'diyya (2021), Lewis, Desiree; Baderoon, Gabeba (eds.), "Refining Islamic Feminisms: Gender, Subjectivity and the Divine Feminine", Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa, Wits University Press, pp. 119–129, ISBN   978-1-77614-610-9 , retrieved 25 October 2021
  5. Hidayatollah, Aysha (2014). Feminist Edges of the Qur'an. Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199359578.
  6. "Sa'diyya Shaikh – The Immanent Frame". SSRC The Immanent Frame. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  7. "Award-winning book gives voice to feminism in Islam". University of Cape Town News. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  8. Shaikh, Sa¿diyya; Seedat, Fatima (13 October 2022). The Women's Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from Around the World. Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-24416-8.
  9. Reviews of Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality
    • Leatt, Annie (2013). "Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality". Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies . 39 (1). Routledge: 144–139. doi:10.1080/02533952.2013.771489.
    • Smith, Anthony Paul (2017). "Sufi narratives of intimacy: Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality." Theology And Sexuality. Routledge. 22 (16): 126 - 128
    • Hammer, J. (2012). Sufi narratives of intimacy: Ibn  'Arabi, gender, and sexuality. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 49 (12): 2301