Founder the first mosque for women in Europe, Sherin Khankan challenges the bias towards masculinity and conservatism so often seen in Islam today.
Sherin Khankan founded the first mosque for women in Europe and is
one of the very few female imams in the world.
Awarded an MA in the Sociology of Religion and Philosophy from the
University of Copenhagen, she is a lecturer, published author,
columnist, activist, and former television commentator on religion
and society. In addition she is an expert in contemporary Islamic
activism and Sufism in the Middle East.
In August 2001 she founded the Association of Critical Muslims and,
in 2014, the Exit Circle, Denmark's first self-help group against
psychological abuse. In 2016 she founded the Mariam Mosque in
Copenhagen, as well as Femimam, an international group of female
and male scholars who advocate for the need for female imams. Also
in 2016, she was chosen as one of the BBC's 100 Women, representing
the world's most pioneering women.
Sherin has a Syrian father and a Finnish mother. She spent a year
in Damascus before the war, studying Islam. Today she lives in
Copenhagen and is the mother of four children.
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