Rahina Muazu

Rahina Muazu is an Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies with a research concentration in Islam in Africa. She received her PhD at Freie Univesität in Berlin, Germany in 2019, a master’s degree at the Aga Khan University in London in 2012, and a Bachelors at the University of Jos, Nigeria, in 2010. Her research and teaching focuses on Women in the Qur’an, Islamic Law, Muslim Intellectuals in Africa, etc. From 2021 to 2024, Dr. Muazu has been a visiting faculty and Research Associate at the Harvard Divinity School first under the Women Studies in Religion Program and then the Center for the Study of World Religions.

Her forthcoming book, tentatively titled Vocal Nudity: Qurʾan Recitation, Capital Formation, and Going-Public of the Female Voice in Nigeria, takes up the question of how Muslims in northern Nigeria debate whether the voice of women should be regarded as having the quality of ʿawra (nudity) which is an interesting concept to set forth as a point of departure for exploring debates about women’s mobility, visibility, audibility, religious leadership, political expression, and income earning. Dr. Muazu has authored many scholarly articles and book chapters on Muslim women in Africa, Interpretation of Islamic Law, Qur’an recitation, German Muslim women converts, etc.