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 Islam. They are the female equivalent of ulema and are referred to as ʿālimah or Shaykha.[1]
7th century
- Fatimah (daughter of Muhammad)
- Aisha bint Abu Bakr, considered the greatest female Muslim scholar of All time.
- Zaynab bint Ali
- Hafsa bint Umar
- Umm Darda as Sughra
- Umm Hakim
- Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah
- Hafsa bint Sirin [2]
- Umm Salamah[3]
- A'isha bint Talhah
- Umm Kulthum bint Abi Bakr, Famous Tabi'un and a notable hadith narrator
- Na'ila bint al-Furafisa wife of Uthman and a notable Hadith Narrator
- Habeeba Husain
8th century
- Fatimah bint Musa
- Sayyida Nafisa
- Rabia Basri
- Fatima al-Batayahiyyah[4]
- Sumayyah bint Khayyat
- Amrah bint Abdur Rahman
- Fatima bint Mundhir
9th century
10th century
- Amat al-Wahid[4]
- Lubna of Cordoba
- Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah also known as Shaykhah Shuhdah .[5] or Shuhdah al- Baghdadiyyah
12th century
13th century
14th century
- Sitt al-Wuzara' al-Tanukhiyyah
- Sitt al-Qudat
- Sitt al-'Arab
- Sitt al-'Ajam[8]
17th century
- Zeb-un-Nisa, Mughal princess
- Zinat-un-Nissa, Mughal princess, contributor to the Hanafi lexicon Fatawa-e-Alamgiri.[9]
18th century
- Fatima al-Fudayliya, also known as al-Shaykha al-Fudayliya.[10][11]
21st century
References
- "Aalimah Studies". Azhar Academy, London. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- Nadwi, Mohammed Akram (2013). Al Muhaddithat: the women scholars in Islam.
- Sayeed, Asma (2013). Women and The Transmission of Religious Knowledge In Islam.
- 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. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. 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 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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