SOFIA REHMAN

Dr Sofia Rehman is an independent scholar specialising in Islam and Gender, an author, and educator. When she is not reading books for research, she is reading them for pleasure. She is the founder of Leeds Lit Book Club which is now in its 8th year. During the global pandemic she launched the Islam and Gender read alongs in which she facilitates readings of academic texts penned by Muslim female scholars in conversation with a global virtual audience and has recently been featured by both Vogue Arabia and Refinery29. She is a contributor to Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration edited by Lia Shimada and to Cut From the Same Cloth? Edited by Sabeena Akhtar. She has publications of her own due out with Oxford University Press and Kube Publications. She is a featured author in Tilted Axis’s anthology Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (edited by Dr Kavita Bhanot & Jeremy Tiang). You can connect with her on her Instagram @Sofia_reading where she talks about all things related to books, faith and academia.