Mona Siddiqui
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Professor Mona Siddiqui is a British Muslim academic. She is currently the University of Glasgow's Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding, as well as the Director of its Centre for the Study of Islam. She is also a regular contributor to Thought for the Day and Sunday on BBC Radio 4, and to The Times, Scotsman, The Guardian, The Herald and (since February 2007, as its first regular Muslim columnist) The Tablet.
Born in Pakistan, she took her BA in Arabic and French at the University of Leeds (graduating in 1984), and her MA in Middle-Eastern Studies and PhD in Classical Islamic Law at the University of Manchester (graduating in 1986 and 1992 respectively). She is or has been a member of the Advisory Boards for Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art, Scottish Asian Arts, IB Tauris Religious Studies project, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 2005 and of the Royal Society of Arts in October 2005. She is currently the Chair of the BBC's Scottish Religious Advisory Committee. She also holds an Honorary DLitt from the University of Wolverhampton.
Her areas of specialism are classical Islamic law, law and gender, early Islamic thought, contemporary legal and ethical issues in Islam. Professor Siddiqui's recent publication is `How to Read the Qur'an' by Granta. She has published widely on on classical Islamic Law and also writes frequently on Christian-Muslim issues. She is fluent in French and Urdu and married with three children.
