Amina Inloes is an

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scholar, researcher, educator, public speaker, translator and a

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Muslim. She has written several books on the subject of Shi'ism.

Personal life

Inloes was born in

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, United States.

Education

She has a PhD in Islamic Studies from

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on Shi'ia hadith about pre-Islamic female figures mentioned in the Qur'an. Her PhD thesis, submitted in 2015, is entitled
Negotiating Shīʿī Identity and Orthodoxy through Canonizing Ideologies about Women in Twelver Shīʿī Aḥādīth on Pre-Islamic Sacred History in the Qurʾān
.

Career

She works for the Research and Publications Department of the Islamic College and is programme leader for the MA Islamic Studies program. She is settled in the

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Publications

* ''The Queen of Sheba in Shi'a Hadith'', in Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, vol. 5, no. 4 (2012) * ''Conversion to Twelver Shi‘ism among American and Canadian women'', in Studies in Religion (forthcoming)by A. Inloes and L. Takim. * ''Mukhtar al-Thaqafi: Character versus Controversy'', in the Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies (Volume 2, 2009) * ''Review of The Shi'a Revival in the Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies'' (Volume 4, 2008) * ''The Tragedy of Karbala'' A Dramatic Interpretation of the Epic of Imam Husain (A). Translations * ''Mulla Muhsin Fayd Kashani'' * ''Spiritual Mysteries and Ethical Secrets'': A Translation of al-Haqa'iq fi Makarim al-Akhlaq, tr. A. Inloes, N. Virjee, and M. Tajri (London: ICAS Press, 2012)

References

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