Azizah Y. al-Hibri (Arabic: عزيزة يحيى الهبري; born 1943) is an American philosopher and legal scholar who specializes in Islam and law.
She was an adviser to the PBS documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (2002), produced by Unity Productions Foundation.
In June 2011, al-Hibri was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
[2] She also wrote the third chapter of Transforming the Faiths of our Fathers: Women who Changed American Religion (2004), edited by Ann Braude.
[3] Al-Hibri is the grandchild of Sheik Toufik El Hibri who established the first Scout movement in the Arab world.