Suad Salih
Suad Salih ( Arabic سعاد صالح, also Saleh transcribed, * 1945 ) is an Egyptian professor of theology at al-Azhar University and a popular television preacher .
Life
She is a professor in the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies. She got her Masters degree in 1973. Since 2002 she has been the head of the theological department at the Faculty of Islamic Studies for Girls.
She advocates a ban on the face veil ( niqab ) at universities.
She takes the view that there is no passage in the Qur'an that tells women to have their faces covered. This is an old Bedouin tradition. In response, she was threatened with death by a preacher in Gize. A member of the Supreme Islamic Council brought a lawsuit against Salih for insulting veiled women.
Among other things, she is the author of a work on classical Islamic inheritance law (Aḥkām al-mīrāṯ wa-l-waṣiyya fī aš-šarīʿa al-islāmiyya [rules of inheritance and wills in Islamic law], Al-Qāhira [Cairo] 1412 AH = 1991 AD ).
The Middle East Media Research Institute released a video in which she sees slavery , under certain circumstances, consistent with Islam. The video is said to be from September 12, 2014 and was part of a broadcast on Egyptian television.
Web links
- http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-296/_nr-25/i.html
- Interview with Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg in ZEIT: http://www.zeit.de/2009/11/Frauenpower/komplettansicht
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salih, Suad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | سعاد صالح (Arabic); Ṣāliḥ, Suʻād Ibrāhīm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian theologian, professor of theology and television preacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |