Aliyah Umm Raiyaan

Aliyah Umm Raiyaan is a British Muslim author and charity founder who lives in East London. She converted to Islam in 1999 and has been involved in dawah in the United Kingdom for over twenty years. She is an international speaker and gave a TEDx talk on the power of pain. ¹

In 2010 she founded Solace UK, a registered charity that helps women who have converted to Islam and find themselves in difficulty; the TEDx event page bills her as the charity's founder and CEO. ^{1 2}

In 2019 she launched the YouTube show Honest Tea Talk. The show's own description presents it as a platform on which three Muslim women — Aliyah, LaYinka and Sumayah — speak openly about topics Muslim women and the wider community need to discuss, taking the format of Red Table Talk as its inspiration. The show ran for four seasons. ^{1 3}

Penguin published her first book, Ramadan Reflections, in March 2023; it became a Sunday Times bestseller. Her second book, The Power of Du'a, followed, and Living with the Qur'an was published in December 2025. ¹

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Her own website and her publisher's biography record her conversion to Islam in 1999; no consulted source names a legal school or theological affiliation for her. Her faith is therefore recorded as unknown beyond that documented conversion. ^{1 2}

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