Sa'diyya Shaikh (born 1969) is a South African scholar of Islam and feminist theory.
Sa'diyya Shaikh was born in 1969 in Krugersdorp, South Africa to Indian Muslim parents.
[3][4] She grew up under the apartheid regime and witnessed the anti-apartheid movement which influenced her to seek liberatory readings of the Qur'an and the Islamic tradition.
[2] Shaikh was a 2016-2017 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin on the project "Gender, Justice and Muslim Ethics.
[7] Shaikh is the co-author of The Women's Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World.