Miss Amina Khatun
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Key information
- Email address
- 263066@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Muslim women mystics: The faith stories of contemporary British Muslim women in the transnational Bani Alawiyya Tarīqa of Hadhramawt
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Katherine P Zebiri & Dr Sian Hawthorne
- Support hours
- Part-time
Biography
Works for the Trade Union Congress in Policy and Campaigns. Previously Amina has gained over four years’ experience working in the voluntary sector (KCSC), for a leading Think tank (IPPR), Trade Union (UNISON) and Healthcare NGO (Bliss). She campaigns on a personal and professional level and has contributed to policy development on various social issues around poverty and inequality, citizenship and industrial relations. She has a keen interest in developing progressive strategies to connect policy work with political activism. She intends that her PhD research on Muslim women’s faith will advance a greater understanding of the role of religious networks in the fulfillment, identity and agency of these women in British society.