Mahjabeen Dhala, PhD., is Assistant Professor of Islamic studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley where she also serves as chair of the Women’s Studies in Religion program and director of the Madrasa-Midrasha program.
As a theologian, exegete, religious educator, and pilgrim guide, she has traveled extensively teaching and learning with Muslim women, unearthing their trials, triumphs, and tenacities. Her work focuses on resuscitating the narratives of premodern Muslim women as theologians, exegetes, and activists, who have been silenced due to patriarchal, sectarian, and secular biases. Her recent book from Cambridge University Press, Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima, portrays the Prophet’s daughter as an agitator of political biases as she confronts the caliph demanding her inheritance rights. Her next book project is on early African Muslim women as saints and martyrs.