Ta Collective presents: In Conversation With Prof. Sohaira Siddiqui

​Join the Ta Collective for an evening in conversation with Dr Sohaira Siddiqui, Executive Director of the Al-Mujadilah Centre and Mosque for Women in Qatar, the world's first women-only mosque.

​We will explore the development of Islamic law over time, with a particular focus on women's rights across different historical periods, including the Ottoman and post-colonial eras. The conversation will consider some of the challenges and questions that regularly arise for Muslim women today and examine how Islamic law has been interpreted and applied in changing social, political and cultural contexts.

​Through an informed and thought-provoking discussion, we will reflect on the relationship between faith, legal tradition and contemporary debates around gender, authority and justice in Muslim communities.

​Whether you are interested in Islamic thought, women's rights, history or contemporary Muslim life, this conversation will offer an opportunity to engage deeply with one of the most important discussions shaping Muslim communities today.

​About Dr Sohaira Siddiqui: Dr Sohaira Siddiqui is the Executive Director of Al-Mujadilah, author, and respected scholar.

​Dr. Siddiqui currently serves as Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at Georgetown University in Qatar, where she researches and teaches on Islamic law, political thought, and their intersections with gender and modernity.She has authored three books: Islamic Law on Trial (2025), Locating the Sharia (2009), and Law and Politics Under the Abbasids (2009). She is currently editing The Cambridge Companion to Islamic Law and writing her fifth book on the development of legal guardianship in Islam and her sixth book on the mosque as an institution of transformation. Dr. Siddiqui has also written over three dozen academic and public pieces of scholarship, advancing nuanced understandings of Islamic law, colonialism, and Muslim societies.

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