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. The inclusion of women in university settings has increased the presence of women scholars. 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.

7th century 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 Fatima bint Musa Sayyida Nafisa Fatima al-Batayahiyyah Sumayyah bint Khabbat Fatima bint Mundhir Rabia Basri Atika bint Yazid

9th century

Fatima al-Fihriya

10th century Amat al-Wahid Lubna of Córdoba

11th century Karima al-Marwaziyya

12th century Fatima al Samaraqandi Taqiyya Umm Ali bint Ghaith ibn Ali al-Armanazi Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah also known as Shaykhah Shuhdah, or Shuhdah al-Baghdadiyyah

13th century Zaynab bint ʿUmar al-Kindī Zaynab bint al-Kamal

14th century Sitt al-Wuzara' al-Tanukhiyyah Sitt al-Qudat Sitt al-'Arab Sitt al-'AjamMernissi, F. (1993)."The Forgotten Queens of Islam". Polity Press: UK, p.20

16th century

A'isha al-Ba'uniyya

17th century Zeb un-nisa Begum, Mughal princess, contributor to the Hanafi lexicon Fatawa-e-Alamgiri. Jahanara Begum

18th century Dada Masiti Fatima al-Fudayliya, also known as al-Shaykha al-Fudayliya.

19th century Nana Asma’u bint Shehu Usman bin Fodiyo Sultan Shah Jahan, Begum of Bhopal Teungku Fakinah

20th century Aisha Abd al-Rahman Zainab al Ghazali Munira al-Qubaysi Margot Badran 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 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 Nadia Amara 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 Tuba Isik ʻUzayyah ʻAlī Ṭāhā

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