Sharia Councils

Helping Muslim Women to Leave Abusive Relationships

Sharia Councils were set up in the UK to provide Muslim women with a mechanism to dissolve their marriages according to sharia. This is the only option for women who have an Islamic niqah that is not registered as a civil marriage and whose husbands do not agree to divorce them by talaq.

First Female Panelist in UK

I have been a panel member of the Shariah Council at Birmingham Central Mosque since 2005 and was the first female Shari’a council panellists in Britain.

Giving Evidence to Parliament

In 2016 I presented evidence to the Sharia Councils Inquiry undertaken by the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee.