Arbaeen

Munzela Raza
completed a BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience in 2006 and
MBChB in 2009 from the University of Manchester. In 2017 she enrolled in
AMI’s four-year Hawza Programme which she successfully completed in
2021 with merit.

Thereafter,
she completed an MA in Islamic Studies with merit from
the University of Birmingham in July 2023. Her dissertation focused on
֫Allama
Ḥillī’s Ghāya al-wuṣūl, specifically the section on ijtihād.
She is currently pursuing further studies at the Al-Mahdi Institute.

Publications:

Mohammad Gh.
Seyed Fatemi, Ahmad Kaouri, Abbas Ramji and Munzela
Raza, “A Purposive Approach to Islamic Marriage: A Re-Assessment of Q.
30:21” in the Islam and the Institution of Marriage: Legal and
Sociological Approaches, edited by Katherine Lemons and Laurens de
Rooij, 114-132. Birmingham: AMI Press, 2023.

Upcoming Publications:

Mohammad
Gh. Seyed Fatemi, Imranali Panjwani, and Munzela Raza, “DNA
Constructed Knowledge, Adultery & Parental Responsibility: A
Critical Assessment of the Fiqhī Principle of Qā ida
al-Firāsh and the
UK Legal System” in the Islamic Perspectives on the Beginning of Human
Life: Jurisprudential, Theological and Social Implications, edited
by Mansooreh Sanaei and Yaser Mirdamadi. Birmingham: AMI Press