Sharifa Tahiya Alkhateeb (née Ahmad Bey; June 6, 1946 – October 21, 2004) was an American writer, researcher and teacher on cultural communication and community building for Islam and Muslims in the United States.

After completion of her undergraduate degree, she earned her master's in comparative religion from Norwich University, in Northfield, Vermont, and in 1977, edited a translation of the Quran published by Marmaduke Pickthall.

[3] From 1989 until her death, Alkhateeb served as president of the Muslim Education Council, a regional organization focused on teaching administrators about Islamic culture.

[6] In 1995, Alkhateeb served as Chair of the Muslim Caucus at the Fourth World Conference on Women convened by the United Nations in Beijing, China.

[4] She became the Middle Eastern/Muslim Team Leader for the Community Resilience Project, which was funded by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as a crisis counseling center in Northern Virginia after the attacks.