Misplaced Pages

Aisha Lemu

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Waggers (talk | contribs) at 12:53, 30 October 2017 (←Created page with ''''Aisha Lemu''' is a British-born author and religious educator who converted to Islam in 1961 and now resides in Nigeria. == Life == Lemu was born in ...'). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 12:53, 30 October 2017 by Waggers (talk | contribs) (←Created page with ''''Aisha Lemu''' is a British-born author and religious educator who converted to Islam in 1961 and now resides in Nigeria. == Life == Lemu was born in ...')(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Aisha Lemu is a British-born author and religious educator who converted to Islam in 1961 and now resides in Nigeria.

Life

Lemu was born in Poole, Dorset in 1940, as Bridget Aisha Honey. At the age of thirteen, she began to question her faith and began exploring other religions including Hinduism and Chinese Buddhism. She studied at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), pursuing her interest in Chinese history, language and culture. While there, she met Muslims who gave her Islamic literature to read and she converted to Islam at the Islamic Cultural Centre in 1961, during her first year of study. She subsequently helped to found the Islamic Society at SOAS, becoming its first secretary, and also assisted in the formation of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies.

After graduating from SOAS, Lemu studied for a postgraduate qualification to teach English as a foreign language and while doing so, she met her future husband, Sheikh Ahmed Lemu, who had been studying at another college of the University of London and was involved in the Islamic activities around the institution. Having obtained her Postgraduate Certificate in Education, she moved to Kano in Nigeria in August 1966 to teach at the School for Arabic Studies there, where Sheikh Ahmed Lemu worked as headmaster. They married in April 1968, with Aisha becoming his second wife. She subsequently moved to Sokoto to take up the position of principal of the Government Girls College.

Sheikh Ahmed Lemu was Grand Qadi of the Sharia Court of Appeal of the State of Niger when it was founded in 1976, and Aisha was principal of the Women's Teachers College in Minna from then until 1978. The couple founded the Islamic Education Trust, which now operates in several Nigerian states has offices and a library, includes a publisher, primary and secondary school and adult education centre for women.

  1. ^ "The American Muslim (TAM)". theamericanmuslim.org. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  2. ^ "'Education Should Be Priority of All Muslim Women'-Aisha Lemu. | HighBeam Business: Arrive Prepared". business.highbeam.com. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  3. ^ Nawab, Suraiya (1997). The contribution of women to Muslim Society: a study of selected autobiographical and bibliographical literature (PDF). Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
  4. Muhammad Umaru Ndagi: Two things I hate to remember - Sheikh Ahmed Lemu. From: Weekly Trust , May 4, 2013