Muslim American activist and scholar
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.
Biography.
Zainab Alwani was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1962. She is the daughter of Taha Jabir Alalwani. Alwani and her family were forced to flee Iraq when she was 7. The family went to Egypt and later Saudi Arabia.
As a young woman, Alwani studied at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. She received her PhD in Islamic jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh) from the International Islamic University in Malaysia. Alwani is also the first female jurist to sit on the board of the Fiqh Council of North America.
Alwani is an activist for the rights of Muslim women and children. She is active in continuing her father's thought and approach to minority fiqh. She specializes in Islamic jurisprudence, Quranic studies, the relationship between Islamic and civil law, and women and the family in Islam. Her sister is the Islamic scholar Ruqaia Al-Alwani. Hadia Mubarak identifies Zainab and Ruqaia as part of a growing body of female Muslim Qur'anic commentators.
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