Hijab and Personality
The Sila Team
August 29, 2022
The Sila Initiative · 6. Hijab And Personality Is there room for “self-expression” in my wearing of hijab? If my body is covered as it should be, what is the
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Ustadha Sadaf Khan
Sadaf was born in North Carolina to parents of South Asian origin. She obtained her Doctorate in Pharmacy while in Chicago, Illinois.
She subsequently began online studies in the Shariah sciences with Shaykh Faraz Rabbani and Ustadha Hedaya Hartford, followed by completion of an Alimah curriculum with various Hanafi scholars and muftis based in India and the United States. She continues to study both online and in person with Islamic scholars such as Shaykh Nuh Keller, Ustadha Besa Krasniqi, and Shaykh Ashraf Muneeb. She currently teaches and resides in Chicago with her husband.
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The Sila Initiative
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The Sila Team
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“Had the people of the towns believed and had taqwa (Godfearingness), We would have opened up vast blessings on them from the heavens and earth” (7:96) Descendants of immigrant Muslims
A Woman’s Ramadan
Ustadha Sadaf Khan
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