Asifa Quraishi

Asifa Quraishi
Born
Asifa Bano Quraishi

(1967-07-17) July 17, 1967 (age 57)[1]
Santa Clara County, California, U.S.[1]
EducationUniversity of California-Berkeley (BA)
University of California-Davis (JD)
Columbia University (LLM)
Harvard University (SJD)
Occupationprofessor

Asifa Bano Quraishi[2] (aka Asifa Quraishi-Landes) (born July 17, 1967) is an American educator and legal scholar. She is a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches courses in Islamic law and U.S. constitutional law. She has served as a law clerk in United States federal courts. Her recent publications address issues of Islamic constitutionalism, in the context of separation of legal authority as well as methodologies of textual interpretation. Quraishi has also written articles for news outlets like The Washington Post and Middle East Eye addressing myths and issues associated with Islam.[3][4][5][6]

Quraishi is a founding board member of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML), its sister organisation Muslim Advocates, based in San Francisco, and American Muslims Intent on Learning and Activism (AMILA). She is also an associate of the Muslim Women’s League, and has served as President and board member of Muslim Women’s League.

Quraishi received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.[7]

  1. ^ a b California Birth Index
  2. ^ "Asifa Bano Quraishi Lawyer Profile on Martindale.com". www.martindale.com. Retrieved Sep 30, 2019.
  3. ^ Quraishi-Landes, Asifa (2016-06-24). "Five myths about sharia". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  4. ^ Quraishi-Landes, Asifa (9 May 2017). "How to create an Islamic government – not an Islamic state". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 2019-03-09. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  5. ^ Quraishi-Landes, Asifa (15 March 2019). "Perspective | Five myths about hijab". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  6. ^ Quraishi-Landes, Asifa (2017-06-08). "How anti-Shariah marches mistake Muslim concepts of state and religious law". Religion News Service. Archived from the original on 2017-06-08. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  7. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Asifa Quraishi-Landes". Retrieved Sep 30, 2019.