Dr Sohaira Siddiqui is the Executive Director of Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha and Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar. The Al-Mujadilah Center was founded to foster a more inclusive Muslim society. The Mosque for Women is the first mosque in the Muslim world built only for women and has been shortlisted in 2025 for prestigious The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Middle East awards. Her seminal academic work focuses on the relationship between law, theology and political thought in classical Islam and contemporary Muslim societies. She is the author of Law and Politics Under the ‘Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Locating the Shari’a: Legal Fluidity in Theory, History and Practice (Brill, 2019).