Amina Inloes is an American scholar, researcher, educator, public speaker, translator and a Shi'ite Muslim. She has written several books on the subject of Shi'ism.

Personal life

Inloes was born in Irvine, California, United States.

Education

She has a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter on Shi'ia hadith about pre-Islamic female figures mentioned in the Qur'an.^[1] Her PhD thesis, submitted in 2015, is entitled "Negotiating Shīʿī Identity and Orthodoxy through Canonizing Ideologies about Women in Twelver Shīʿī Aḥādīth on Pre-Islamic Sacred History in the Qurʾān".^[2]

Career

She works for the Research and Publications Department of the Islamic College and is programme leader for the MA Islamic Studies program.^[3] She is settled in the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

• The Queen of Sheba in Shi'a Hadith, in Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, vol. 5, no. 4 (2012)^[4]
• Conversion to Twelver Shi‘ism among American and Canadian women, in Studies in Religion (forthcoming)by A. Inloes and L. Takim.^[4]
• Mukhtar al-Thaqafi: Character versus Controversy, in the Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies (Volume 2, 2009)^[4]
• Review of The Shi'a Revival in the Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies (Volume 4, 2008)^[4]
• The Tragedy of Karbala A Dramatic Interpretation of the Epic of Imam Husain (A).^[4]

Translations

• Mulla Muhsin Fayd Kashani^[4]
• Spiritual Mysteries and Ethical Secrets: A Translation of al-Haqa'iq fi Makarim al-Akhlaq, tr. A. Inloes, N. Virjee, and M. Tajri (London: ICAS Press, 2012)^[5]

References