Zainab Alwani

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Zainab Alwani
Born1962
Baghdad, Iraq
NationalityIraqi-American
Alma materInternational Islamic University Malaysia
OccupationIslamic scholar
Known forFirst woman to serve on Fiqh Council of North America
ParentTaha Jabir Alawani
RelativesRuqaia Al-Alwani

Zainab Alwani is an American activist and Islamic scholar. She is Founding Director and Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Howard University School of Divinity. [1]

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Biography

Zainab Alwani was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1962. [2] [3] She is the daughter of Taha Jabir Alalwani. [4] Alwani and her family were forced to flee Iraq when she was 7. The family went to Egypt and later Saudi Arabia. [3]

As a young woman, Alwani studied at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. [5] [3] She received her PhD in Islamic jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh) from the International Islamic University in Malaysia. [6] [5] Alwani is also the first female jurist to sit on the board of the Fiqh Council of North America. [7] [2] [6] [8]

Alwani is an activist for the rights of Muslim women and children. [2] She is active in continuing her father's thought and approach to minority fiqh. [9] She specializes in Islamic jurisprudence, Quranic studies, the relationship between Islamic and civil law, and women and the family in Islam. [1] [3] [9] Her sister is the Islamic scholar Ruqaia Al-Alwani. [10] Hadia Mubarak identifies Zainab and Ruqaia as part of a growing body of female Muslim Qur'anic commentators. [11]

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  1. 1 2 "People Profile |". profiles.howard.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  2. 1 2 3 Callahan, Sharon Henderson (2013-06-20). Religious Leadership. SAGE. ISBN   978-1-4129-9908-3.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Shahid, Omar (10 October 2014). "Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Zainab Alwani, Reclaiming Gender Equality in Islamic Scholarship: This prominent American scholar, academic and activist often finds herself to be the only Muslim female scholar on stage at conferences". Campus Watch. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
  4. ↑ Alwani, Zainab (2020). "From Baghdad to Leesburg". In Jones, Richard J. (ed.). From Baghdad to Leesburg: A Leader of al-Ta'āruf. The Al-Alwani Muslim-Christian Lectures 2010-2017. International Institute of Islamic Thought. pp. 1–9. doi:10.2307/j.ctv19prr4t.5. ISBN   978-1-56564-955-2. JSTOR   j.ctv19prr4t.5. S2CID   229533034 . Retrieved 2021-12-17.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. 1 2 "Zainab Al-Alwani". About Islam. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  6. 1 2 Yakar, Emine Enise (2021-09-30). Islamic Law and Society: The Practice Of Iftā' And Religious Institutions. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-000-45637-0.
  7. ↑ "Dr. Zainab Alwani | WISE Muslim Women Zainab Alwani". WISE Muslim Women. 2019-12-21. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  8. ↑ Azid, Toseef; Ward-batts, Jennifer L. (2020-06-22). Economic Empowerment Of Women In The Islamic World: Theory And Practice. World Scientific. ISBN   978-981-12-1216-1.
  9. 1 2 Albrecht, Sarah (2018-04-24). Dār al-Islām Revisited: Territoriality in Contemporary Islamic Legal Discourse on Muslims in the West. BRILL. ISBN   978-90-04-36457-8.
  10. ↑ "Dr. Ruqaia Al-Alwani | CILE - Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics". admin.cilecenter.org. Archived from the original on 2022-10-22. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
  11. ↑ Mubarak, Hadia (2022-04-15). Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-755332-9.
  12. ↑ Abugideiri, Salma; Alwani, Zainab (2008). What Islam Says about Domestic Violence: A Guide for Helping Muslim Families. Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary Help.
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