Professor Fatima Seedat to join the Panel Discussion on “Islam in Africa” on April 28, 2024
Adebayo Ajadi
Professor Fatima Seedat to join the Panel Discussion on “Islam in Africa” on April 28, 2024
Fatima Seedat is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of African Feminist Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She holds a PhD in Islamic Law from McGill University. Before arriving at UCT, she coordinated the flagship master’s programme in Gender, Religion, and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).
Fatima studies and teaches at the intersections of sexuality, law, and religion, specialising in Muslim feminist readings of gendered legal subjectivity. She also teaches African feminism and feminist decolonial research methodologies and design. Fatima is published in local and international journals on religion, sexuality, and gender, specifically feminist approaches to Islam, queering the study of Islam, militant Muslim masculinity, and feminist readings of Islamic law.
Some key community projects that Fatima has co-created are Shura Yabafazi (2001) and the Family Eidgah (2004). She is an activist-scholar committed to gender-based transformation in African Muslim family law and religious authority practices. Most recently, Fatima’s work has been centered on Muslim Family Law reform in South Africa, where she is part of the Muslim Personal Law Network (of women scholars, activists, and professionals working collectively since 2016), which is closely affiliated with the international network Musawah.
Amongst her publications is a book that fulfills a dream begun in 2004 when she was part of the first Family Eid Gah in Durban; “The Women’s Khutbah Book”, co-authored with Prof Sa’diyya Shaikh gathers the wisdom of more than 21 khatibas to produce a virtual minbar guided by women’s experiences of spirituality, agency, and justice.
Fatima is the principal investigator on the Legal Experience Project, funded by an NRF Thuthuka Grant, which focuses on gendered legal subjectivity in Muslim marriage and divorce law in South Africa. http://www.agi.uct.ac.za/agi-projects-legal-experience-the-project-team
Sunday, April 28, 2024
11 AM Austin (US) // 4 PM Ghana // 5 PM Nigeria // 6 PM South Africa // 7 PM Uganda
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https://www.tfinterviews.com/post/islamafrica
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