Abla al-Kahlawi

Abla al-Kahlawi (15 December 1948 – 25 January 2021) was an Egyptian scholar and teacher of Islamic jurisprudence, as well as a religious leader, preacher, and television presenter. She taught at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, where she was the Dean of the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies at the Women's College. She was listed on the inaugural edition of The 500 Most Influential Muslims for her work on religion and women, in 2009, and has published widely on women and Islamic jurisprudence. She preached in Egypt, in person and on television, as well as in Saudi Arabia, and notably preached every day for two years at the Masjid al-Ḥaram, Islam's most important mosque in Saudi Arabia, between 1987 and 1989.

Quotes

• Oh people of culture and humanism! Is this humanism? Is this what you've learned? Perhaps Shakespeare was right when he said that when the blind idiots will rule the world, he would drain his blood to death. That is what is happening now.
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• Perhaps Eisenhower was also right when he declared… We thought that they were worthy of being a symbol of liberties, because the Statue of Liberty is in America's bosom, which was imported from America…
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• History is full of people like you. History is full of tyrants, and it is as though you are repeating history once again.
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• If we take a firm stand in defense of our religion and our faith, we will be in Paradise. We are martyrs. We seek martyrdom.
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