Sa'diyya Shaikh

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Sa'diyya Shaikh (born 1969) is a South African scholar of Islam and feminist theory. She is an associate professor of religion at the University of Cape Town. Shaikh studies Sufism in relation to feminism and feminist theory.[1][2]

Biography[]

Sa'diyya Shaikh was born in 1969 in Krugersdorp, South Africa to Indian Muslim parents.[3][4] She grew up under the apartheid regime and witnessed the anti-apartheid movement which influenced her to seek liberatory readings of the Qur'an and the Islamic tradition.[5]

Shaikh has published works on Muslim women and gendered violence, feminist approaches to the Qur'an and hadith, contraception and abortion in Islam, and gender and Islamic law.[2] Shaikh was a 2016-2017 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin on the project "Gender, Justice and Muslim Ethics."[3][6]

Shaikh is the author of Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality. The book explores the thought of Ibn 'Arabi from a feminist perspective.[7]

Works[]

  • Daniel C. Maguire and Sa’diyya Shaikh (eds). 2007. Violence Against Women in Contemporary World Religions: Roots and Cures. Cleveland, Ohio: The Pilgrim Press
  • Shaikh, Sa'diyya. 2012. Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabi, Gender and Sexuality. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "Associate Professor Sa'diyya Shaikh | Department for the Study of Religions". www.religion.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  2. ^ a b "Sa'diyya Shaikh | WISE Muslim Women Sa'diyya Shaikh". WISE Muslim Women. 2009-08-14. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  3. ^ a b "Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Sa'diyya Shaikh, Ph.D." Sa'diyya Shaikh, Ph.D. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  4. ^ Shaikh, Sa’diyya (2021), Lewis, Desiree; Baderoon, Gabeba (eds.), "Refining Islamic Feminisms: Gender, Subjectivity and the Divine Feminine", Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa, Wits University Press, pp. 119–129, ISBN 978-1-77614-610-9, retrieved 2021-10-25
  5. ^ Hidayatollah, Aysha (2014). Feminist Edges of the Qur'an. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199359578.
  6. ^ "Sa'diyya Shaikh – The Immanent Frame". SSRC The Immanent Frame. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  7. ^ "Award-winning book gives voice to feminism in Islam". University of Cape Town News. 2015-06-12. Retrieved 2021-10-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Reviews of Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality
    • Leatt, Annie (2013). "Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality". Social Dynamics: A journal of African studies. Routledge. 39 (1): 144–139.
    • Smith, Anthony Paul (2017). "Sufi narratives of intimacy: Ibn ‘Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality." Theology And Sexuality. Routledge. 22 (16): 126 - 128
    • Hammer, J. (2012). Sufi narratives of intimacy: Ibn  ’Arabi, gender, and sexuality. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 49 (12): 2301
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