Amina Inloes

Amina Inloes is an American scholar, researcher, educator, public speaker, translator and a Shi'i Muslim. She has written several books on the subject of Shi'ism.

Personal life Inloes was born in Irvine, California, United States.

Education She has a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter on Shi'ia hadith about pre-Islamic female figures mentioned in the Qur'an. Her PhD thesis, submitted in 2015, is entitled "Negotiating Shīʿī Identity and Orthodoxy through Canonizing Ideologies about Women in Twelver Shīʿī Aḥādīth on Pre-Islamic Sacred History in the Qurʾān".

Career She works for the Research and Publications Department of the Islamic College and is programme leader for the MA Islamic Studies program. Inloes has completed a partial translation of the Shams al-Ma'arif.

Publications

The Queen of Sheba in Shi'a Hadith, in Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, vol. 5, no. 4 (2012) Conversion to Twelver Shi‘ism among American and Canadian women, in Studies in Religion (forthcoming)by A. Inloes and L. Takim. The Sun of Knowledge (Shams al-Ma'arif): An Arabic Grimoire in Selected Translation