Khola Hasan

Khola Hasan is a British writer and broadcaster who serves as Office Director and Counsellor at the Islamic Shariah Council in London. Born in Saudi Arabia and primary-schooled in Kenya, she has spent most of her life in London, and at seventeen she authored The Crumbling Minarets of Spain. ¹

Her books include The Crumbling Minarets of Spain, published by Taha Publishers, and The Medical and Social Costs of Cousin Marriages within the British Mirpuri Community; she also translated The Many Shades of Shirk, published by Darussalam under the supervision of Dr Suhaib Hasan. ² In 2005 she took part in BBC Radio 4's "Women in Islam" debate alongside Irshad Manji, a programme that won the Sony Gold Prize for Best Speech Programme, and she has been a guest panellist on the Doha Debates, with many further television and radio programmes to her name. ¹

For eight years she worked as a Home Office intervention provider, working with the police, prisons and social services with young Muslim men and women at risk of radicalisation, and she has lectured in primary and secondary schools, universities and prisons. She is pursuing the five-year Alimiyyah course at As Salam Institute; her teachers include Suhaib Hasan Abdul Ghaffar, Muhammad Abdel Haleem, Akram Nadwi and Werner Menski. ¹