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.[1] The inclusion of women in university settings has increased the presence of women scholars.[2] 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.[3][4]

## 7th century

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* 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

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* Fatima bint Musa
* Sayyida Nafisa
* Fatima al-Batayahiyyah
* Sumayyah bint Khabbat
* Fatima bint Mundhir
* Rabia Basri
* Atika bint Yazid

## 9th century

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* Fatima al-Fihriya

## 10th century

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* Amat al-Wahid[5]
* Lubna of Córdoba

## 11th century

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* Karima al-Marwaziyya

## 12th century

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* Fatima al Samaraqandi[6]
* Taqiyya Umm Ali bint Ghaith ibn Ali al-Armanazi
* Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah also known as Shaykhah Shuhdah,[7] or Shuhdah al-Baghdadiyyah

## 13th century

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* Zaynab bint ʿUmar al-Kindī
* Zaynab bint al-Kamal[8]

## 14th century

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* Sitt al-Wuzara' al-Tanukhiyyah
* Sitt al-Qudat
* Sitt al-'Arab
* Sitt al-'Ajam[9]

## 16th century

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* A'isha al-Ba'uniyya

## 17th century

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* Muhammad Bakr, Mughal princess, contributor to the Hanafi lexicon Fatawa-e-Alamgiri.[10]
* Jahanara Begum

## 18th century

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* Dada Masiti
* Fatima al-Fudayliya, also known as al-Shaykha al-Fudayliya.[11][12]

## 19th century

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

## 20th century

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* 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

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* 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
* 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

## References

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