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South African scholar

Sa'diyya Shaikh
Born	1969 Krugersdorp, South Africa
Nationality	South African
Occupation	Islamic studies scholar
Notable work	Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality

Sa'diyya Shaikh (born 1969) is a South African scholar of Islam and feminist theory.

Sa'diyya Shaikh, Department for the Study of Religions, University of Cape.

Sa'diyya Shaikh, Department for the Study of Religions, University of Cape.

Dissolving into Being is an introduction to Sufi philosophy, a tradition based on the.

This article theorizes Islamic feminism as a form of 'friendship with/in tradition', drawing creatively on Sufism.

A brilliant new introduction to Sufi philosophy, a tradition traced back to the works of Sufism's most renowned master, Ibn 'Arabi (d.

Scholars and activists including Leila Ahmed, Amina Wadud, and Sa'diyya Shaikh have engaged with or been inspired by Sufi figures such as Rabi'a.

She is a professor of religion at the University of Cape Town. Shaikh studies Sufism in relation to feminism and feminist theory.^[1][2] Shaikh is known for work on gender in Islam and 'Ibn Arabi.

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, contracept