Ruqayya Yasmine Khan is a professor of religion and Malas Chair of Islamic Studies at Claremont Graduate University.
Since 2013, she has been the Mohannad Malas Chair of the MA Program in Islamic Studies at Claremont Graduate University.
[1] Prior to this role, she held visiting faculty positions in the religion departments at Swarthmore College and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and later became a tenured faculty member in the Department of Religion at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
She has also conducted research at the Institute of Islamic Studies at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
She received funding from the Fletcher Jones Foundation for her work on Hafsa bint ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, an early figure in Islamic history.