Namira Nahouza (born July 1979)[1] is a French author, academic researcher, university lecturer, teacher of Arabic and religious studies, and research fellow at Cambridge Muslim College, whose research focusses on contemporary Salafi-Wahhabi theories of Qur'anic and Hadith interpretation.
She is probably best known for her book Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists: Theology, Power and Sunni Islam, which was originally a PhD thesis submitted to the University of Exeter in 2009.
She graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Rennes (France) and the University of Exeter (United Kingdom).
Holder of a master's degree in Arabic (University of Rennes and INALCO) in 2004.
During her university studies, Namira completed several internships: at the French Embassy in Cairo, at the Permanent Representation of the Comoros to the United Nations in New York and France in 2001.