Ziba Mir-Hosseini (Persian: زیبا میرحسینی; born 3 April 1952) is an Iranian-born legal anthropologist, specialising in Islamic law, gender and development.
[1][2] She received her PhD in anthropology from Cambridge University[3] and is the author of several books on Islam, gender, and the family.
[7] Born to Iranian parents, Mir-Hosseini is fluent in English, French, and Persian, and is familiar with Arabic and Kurdish.
Mir-Hosseini's doctoral thesis was written about an ethnographic fieldwork in 1977 in Kalardasht, a tourist district in Iran, about how tourism and a changing economy both impacted traditional Iranian family life, and is titled "Changing Aspects of Economic and Family Structures in Kalardasht, a District of Northern Iran."
Mir-Hosseini is an expert on Iranian affairs, Islamic family law, and women in the Muslim world.